The situation is a nightmare for a right-wing coalition that came to power last September promising to clamp down on irregular immigration
That is a nightmare for a coalition that came to power last September promising to clamp down on irregular immigration. Giorgia Meloni, Italy’s prime minister, is not the only European leader affected. Many or most of the migrants who land in Italy move on to countries farther north where their compatriots are already settled, where jobs are more plentiful and public benefits are more generous.
Arrivals are one aspect of this drama. Non-arrivals are a much grimmer one. In just four days to March 26th, seven boats carrying migrants foundered off the North African coast, leaving more than 100 people dead or missing. Given the lack of seaworthiness of most of the vessels into which the migrants are packed, tragedies are inevitable. But the Italian government has increased the risks by imposing restrictions on the ships run bys that rescue migrants and bring them to Italian ports.
Though migrants continue to arrive from Libya and Turkey, the key to the recent surge is an increase in the numbers leaving from troubled Tunisia. President Kais Saied last year shut down parliament and awarded himself wide-ranging powers. Unemployment is at more than 15% and the country is short of food. A deal with thefor a $1.9bn loan is stalled, apparently because of the president’s reluctance to countenance economic reforms.
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