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The pressure on Italy increases, the numbers of landings and drowned victims affect public opinion and the flows decree, approved amidst controversy Cutrocannot stop the exodus from the African coasts. In this dramatic painting, Giorgia Meloni convenes an immigration and security summit with the Secret Service. The alarm is very high, the figures of desperation have tripled compared to the first months of 2022. And the government must find a way to put a stop to departures, urgently and effectively. «The arrivals figures are impressive, with the warm season the problem can only get worse – one opens the works Meloni “very worried” “If Europe doesn’t move and continues to leave us alone, this summer will be an invasion.”

AND Antonio Tajani to illustrate the “very serious contingencies” that put Italy’s security at risk: from war in Ukraine to the earthquake in Turkey and Syria, from the exodus affecting theSub-Saharan Africa to the collapse of Tunisia. The FI coordinator, connected by video from Israel, suggests that the prime minister raise her voice in Brussels and urges her to hurry: “Words and normal law enforcement initiatives are no longer enough, we need to move quickly to deeds”. The director of Dis Elisabetta Belloni and the director of Aise Giovanni Caravelli draw attention to Tunisia, which is suffering from a devastating economic and political crisis. President Kais Saied wants to close the doors to theirregular immigration which arrives from sub-Saharan Africa and thousands are heading towards Italy. Here because Meloni asks the US not to block the one billion loan of the IMF in Tunis and the secret services are putting pressure on the local authorities to start patrolling the sea again. “If Tunisia explodes, a thousand people will arrive every day,” is Tajani’s great fear.

Alongside Meloni, who will answer the question time of the Chamber tomorrow, are Undersecretary Mantovano, the Minister of the Interior Planted, Deputy Prime Minister Salvini via video link and Minister Crosetto, in charge of Defense. One intervention after another, the strategy begins to take shape. We need to shake the immobilism of the EU and reopen the diplomatic confrontation with Libya. “And the time has come to involve the UN”, agree the leaders, convinced that the first thing to do is “destroy the departing boats”. And the idea of ​​restoring in Parliament the rule on military ships that had been canceled in the running, a few hours before the CDM in Calabria, returns. Salvini had opposed it and Crosetto had accepted the excerpt, but with the boom in landings Meloni considers it necessary to strengthen the coordination of maritime surveillance to identify boats in extraterritorial waters, using Navy ships (and radars).

According to alarming intelligence data, the flows from Turkey pointing straight towards Calabria, Sicily and Puglia are on the increase, due to the activism of Kurdish and Pakistani criminal organizations that use the web to advertise their services. The premier and the ministers agree on the need to act across the board, at a political and diplomatic level, to put pressure on the European Commission. Attention words from Michel and von der Leyen they are “very important”, but now “actions are needed” and Meloni expects that on 23 and 24 March at the EU Council “the Union will finally strike a blow”. A new patrol and rescue mission would be needed, such as Sophia was, the European-directed military operation launched in 2015 and closed in 2020.

With the government in obvious difficulty, voices of a possible international conspiracy have begun to arise in the majority. A political and economic “blackmail” to embarrass the country that has strengthened the penalties against smugglers and maritime mafiosi. “Many immigrants arrive from areas controlled by Wagner’s troops – assures Tajani – I would not even want there was an attempt to push the migrants towards Italy”. The fearsome brigade of Russian mercenaries in the pay of Moscow is active in some African countries and they too have been talked about with the secret services, as one of the possible causes of the increase in landings. Crosetto sees us as “a clear strategy of hybrid warfare” and retaliation against Italy: setting fire to the southern front of Europe and hitting the “clear and clear-cut geostrategic choices” of our country.