The Meloni Government, to Sánchez for criticism of the Italian immigration model: “They have shot migrants entering from Morocco”

The migration model of the ultra Giorgia Meloni is making a fortune in an increasingly right-wing EU. But there is some Government, like the Spanish one, that maintains its opposition to building deportation centers in third countries to manage immigration and asylum and refuge policy. And that has not pleased Rome, where the Minister of the Interior, Matteo Piantedosi, said this Thursday night on the Piazza Pulita program on the La 7 channel: “It seems strange to me for a country that has sometimes fired shots in Ceuta and Melilla to migrants trying to cross the border from Morocco to Spain. “Spain should put a little more rationality and balance in some considerations regarding what the specific policies are regarding the containment of irregular immigration in its territory.”

Pitantedosi is Minister of the Interior belonging to the quota of Matteo Salvini, leader of the far-right Lega, from the same European political family as the Hungarian Viktor Orbán and Vox.

Spain, Germany and France have demanded an acceleration in the implementation of the Migration and Asylum Pactscheduled for the summer of 2026. But a majority of member states have already passed the screen and consider that it falls short. The threat is that this agreement, which took years of negotiation to close, will be directly dead..

The pressure comes from a majority of capitals that demand tougher measures to combat irregular immigration. And they have found in the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, an ally who has taken up the gauntlet of proposals such as that of deportation centers. The German made a gesture with all those countries, led by Italy, Holland and Denmark, by meeting with the leaders just before the meeting of the 27 in the European Council. In total, eleven prime ministers met with the head of the community executive (the three conveners were joined by Austria, Cyprus, Greece, Malta, the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia and Hungary).

“We are not in favor of that type of formulas. They do not address any of the problems and create new ones,” said Pedro Sánchez in reference to those centers outside EU territory: “We opt for a vision much more focused on the external dimension of the migration phenomenon, as we can anticipate the arrival of migrants strengthening cooperation. That is why we have asked that Frontex reach agreements with the governments of Senegal, Mauritania and West Africa to collaborate on the ground.” The Spanish president has defended a “humanitarian” vision of the migratory phenomenon and has also demanded more community budget for this matter, which currently only allocates 2,000 million euros.