Opposites entice? On 16 September, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer visited Giorgia Meloni in Rome. The Labour chief praised his far-right Italian counterpart’s migration mannequin, primarily based amongst different issues on relocating the administration of asylum functions to Albania. Starmer thus confirms the recalibration of London’s migration coverage, initiated since his election in July 2024. The assembly has raised questions even inside his personal ranks, as Starmer was elected on the promise of providing a substitute for the coverage pursued by his Conservative predecessor Rishi Sunak.
By unlucky coincidence, the assembly occurred only a day after one other shipwreck within the English Channel, by which eight migrants misplaced their lives. Not less than 45 individuals have died because the starting of 2024 trying the crossing to the UK.
Virtually concurrently, this identical Italian “migration mannequin” is in court docket: the Palermo Prosecutor’s Workplace has requested six years’ imprisonment for Italian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Infrastructure and Transport Matteo Salvini (Lega, far proper). He’s accused of kidnapping and negligence for stopping an Open Arms ship that rescued migrants shipwrecked within the Mediterranean from docking on the island of Lampedusa for 19 days in 2019. The decision is predicted in October.
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