NIMBY at its finest. I'm not saying to take everyone no matter what, but helping eachothers is how we thrive as a species. We're better than this.
She's a literal fascist. She is not better than this
We're trying to help a tiny group of oligarchs, not each other. "We" are not better than this, socialist states are.
long time member of Italian fascist party is still a fascist, more in at 5
It's just irresponsible / dishonest for journalists to call her anything other than what she is: a fascist. It is a well-documented fact and something we need to be completely honest about.
It hits too close to home, she's aligned with the west on everything that matters, Ukraine etc, none too coincidentally enough.
Historically, didn’t fascism begun in Italy?
Europe created the problems they refuse to fix, no surprise there, it's an old European tradition to screw over other peoples countries
pretty sure the US is at fault here
Why is the EU utterly incapable of establishing legal routes for refuges and moving refuges to other EU member countries in a fair manner?
Because immigrants are scary to a lot of Europeans and they want to keep Europe white?
Clearly you've never been to Brussels.
Western and central Europe haven't been "white" for decades.
Because the amount of work. My country put in place relatively strict every laws, to make sure that people aren't economical refugees, but legit people in danger in their own country.
Problem is that everybody needs to be checked, and that is a lot of work, making that the centre of admissions is clogged up with demand.
So even if you want stricter control, it can lead to more congestion.
The EU, the US, most of Asia. Refugees and displaced persons is a global issue that isn't confined to just Europe
Because basic human rights and compassion are not European qualities nor have they ever been
I mean why help people when you can kick them while they're down? It's just human nature at this point isn't it?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Giorgia Meloni told the UN general assembly in New York that the huge numbers arriving in Lampedusa, a tiny Sicilian island that for years has been the first port of call for people crossing a perilous stretch of the Mediterranean Sea from north Africa, had placed Italy “under incredible pressure”.
During a visit to Lampedusa on Sunday, Meloni, who took power last October vowing to stop illegal immigration, said “the future of Europe is at stake” unless EU countries worked together to come up with “serious solutions”.
Meloni was the key protagonist of a controversial £105m deal signed in July between the EU and Tunisia, from where the vast majority of people are setting off, to stem irregular migration.
Italy and the EU have a similar deal with Libya, where people have reported severe human rights abuses in detention camps, including being beaten, tortured and raped.
The European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, who accompanied Meloni during the visit to Lampedusa, where they both pledged the swift deportation of those turned down for asylum, urged EU member states to make use of a mechanism enabling them to voluntarily take in migrants to help ease the burden on Italy.
Ten years after Pope Francis made a landmark visit to Lampedusa to show solidarity with migrants, he will join Catholic bishops from the Mediterranean this weekend in the French city of Marseille to make the call more united.
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