“We need more Europe on the southern front” says Giorgia Meloni

The Italian Prime Minister, the far-right Giorgia Meloniassured today that Europe should be more involved in the southern border and that it is urgently necessary to create a cooperation framework to be able to deal with the flows migratory in a more decisive way.

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“We need more Europe on the southern front, alone we cannot manage a flow of dimensions that are already immeasurable”, he said at the closing of the VIII Diálogos Med Conference, which has brought together heads of state and representatives of more than 50 countries since Thursday in Rome to discuss the challenges facing the Mediterranean.

Meloni, who said that Italy is promoting a plan for Africa, insisted that “Europe urgently needs to create a multilateral cooperation framework, with an incisive fight against illegal flows” and considered that “An essential element is the Europeanization of the management of repatriations.”

“We ask that the European Union relaunch the effective application of the commitments it has assumed, through migration cooperation with African and Mediterranean partners that must become more involved in the fight against trafficking in human beings”he added.

In your opinion, “A solid geopolitics of dialogue can only be built and consolidated in the area starting from the awareness of our identities and cultural values, from the realization that our prosperity is not possible if that of our neighbors does not also exist.”

In this context, he explained that “Italy is promoting a Mattei plan for Africa, an approach that does not have a predatory stance, but collaboration, respectful of reciprocal interests, based on a development that knows how to enhance the identities of each one”

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“Only by creating a space of shared stability and prosperity will we be able to face the challenges of the times that we face”added Meloni, for whom “The full and lasting stabilization of Libya is a national security priority.”

Necessary “resort to a broader meaning of security” that also includes “actions to safeguard the human, cultural, environmental, energy and food dimensions”, without forgetting “the protection of cultural heritage” because “security is what unites us, not what divides us,” he concluded.

The fight against terrorism, migratory flows or the consequences of the war in Ukraine are some of the topics that have been addressed by the Conference, with the title “Weathering the storm: interdependence, resilience and cooperation.

The event, organized by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Italian Institute for International Policy Studies, has addressed the main challenges of the Mediterranean and strengthen intraregional cooperation, around four pillars: “Shared security”, “Shared prosperity”, “Migration” and “Culture and civil society”.

Source: Elcomercio

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