Premier Giorgia Meloni accused EU
High Representative for Foreign Affairs Josep Borrell and
parties of the Left in Italy and the rest of Europe of working
against solutions to stop the arrival of large numbers of
migrants during a cabinet meeting on Monday, sources said.
The reference to Borrell is linked to a letter he reportedly
sent on September 7 to Enlargement Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi
criticising the adoption of a Memorandum of Understanding with
Tunisia for cooperation in stemming the flow of migrants from
the coast of the North African country.
Meloni was instrumental in bringing about the agreement.
"I am sorry to see some Italian and European political parties
are rowing in the opposite direction and doing everything they
can to dismantle the work that is being done because of
ideological reasons or, worse still, political calculations,"
Meloni said, accoding to the sources.
"I am referring to the letter of the High Representative for
European Foreign Policy Borrell, to the appeals made by the
European Socialists, and to the positions taken by various
members of the Left (against the MOU).
"All these actions go in the same direction, trying to argue
that no North African country is a safe State with which it is
possible to agree to stop departures or to repatriate illegal
immigrants.
"Basically, the European Left wants to make mass illegal
immigration unavoidable'.
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