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    Italian police forcibly remove migrants stranded near French border

    Italian police forcibly remove migrants stranded near French border

    Scenes at Ventimiglia are ‘punch in the face to all the European countries that want to close their eyes’ to the crisis, says Italian interior minister



    Italian police remove people, mostly from Sudan and Eritrea, who have been camped out for days near the border crossing with France. Photograph: Luca Zennaro/AP

    Stephanie Kirchgaessner in Rome
    Tuesday 16 June 2015 06.48 EDTLast modified on Tuesday 16 June 201510.46 EDT

    Police on Italy’s border with France have forcibly removed about a hundred migrants who were stranded in the Italian city of Ventimiglia and denied entry into France, escalating tensions between the two countries over the free movement of migrants to northern Europe.

    The chaotic scene in Ventimiglia – the Italian city where migrants have been sleeping on rocks overlooking the French border – was called a “punch in the face to all the European countries that want to close their eyes” to the migrant crisis, said Angelino Alfano, Italy’s interior minister.


    Some of the migrants – who are mostly from Sudan and Eritrea – were resisting police and trying to hang on to signposts in their desperate attempt to make their way across the border, according to media reports.


    They were loaded on to a bus and brought to the city’s train station, where the Red Cross is leading assistance efforts. Similar temporary aid stations are popping up all over Italy, including in train stations in Milan and Rome.


    Italy threatens to give Schengen visas to migrants as EU ministers meet

    In some cases, migrant families in Ventimiglia making the trek to northern Europe have been separated, with some successfully making their way to Paris and beyond, while others have been turned back.

    Tensions between Rome and Paris have risen dramatically after France closed the border to the migrants amid accusations that Italy was not properly processing the refugees.

    The French interior minister, Bernard Cazeneuve, said 6,000 migrants had been returned to Italy so far.


    France’s position has been rejected as untenable by the Italian prime minister, Matteo Renzi, who said on Monday that it ran contrary to a European agreement that the ongoing migrant crisis was a shared burden.


    The issue is likely to be at the top of the agenda when Renzi meets France’s president, François Hollande, on Sunday. He is also due to meet David Cameron in Milan on Wednesday, when the British prime minister visits the expo fair.


    “If Europe wants to be Europe, it has to take on this problem as a single bloc. This is plan A. The muscular stance of some ministers of some friendly countries goes in the opposite direction,” Renzi said on Monday.


    He added: “If it’s Italy’s problem because Europe closes its eyes, then Italy will do it on its own. But in that case it would be a defeat not for Italy, but for the very idea of Europe.”


    Ventimiglia’s mayor, Enrico Ioculano, who said he was not warned about the police action, said a political solution was required to end the stalemate. In Italy, the humanitarian crisis has been made even more difficult because of the staunch opposition against Renzi – and anti-immigrant fervour – among some rightwing governors, which has put pressure on local officials.


    Ioculano told journalists that he had sought some regional assistance to help the city cope with the influx of migrants, but said the request was denied by the conservative governor of Liguria, Giovanni Toti, who has said the area would not offer any humanitarian assistance to migrants.


    Governors in Lombardy and Veneto have also rejected a proposal by Renzi’s government in Rome for all Italian regions to accept some of the migrants who are landing on the country’s shore in the south.


    In Veneto, the freshly re-elected governor, Luca Zaia, has ordered all local authorities to remove migrant housing and other dwellings from areas close to tourist destinations, saying their presence would have a “devastating” impact on tourism in the region around Venice.


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    Are we proud of showing the illegal immigrants of the world that they should be denied going anywhere? That seems to be exactly what we have done.

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    Quote Originally Posted by kevinssdad View Post
    Are we proud of showing the illegal immigrants of the world that they should be denied going anywhere? That seems to be exactly what we have done.
    Where do you want to let them go?

    What country are you willing to turn over to them?
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    The Italian economy is in the drink and Italy can't afford to support all of these people. The majority are Muslim and they come looking for social welfare and to be taken care of. JMO

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    Italy threatens to give Schengen visas to migrants as EU ministers meet

    Frustrated at infighting over sharing the migrant burden, Rome says it will issue temporary visas allowing travel beyond Italy if an equitable deal is not reached



    Migrants make their message clear in the Italian town of Ventimiglia on the border with France. Photograph: Luca Zennaro/EPA

    Ian Traynor in Brussels
    Tuesday 16 June 2015 02.50 EDT
    Last modified on Tuesday 16 June 201503.04 EDT


    EU interior ministers are due to meet in Luxembourg on Tuesday to discuss how to cope with mass migration across the Mediterranean from Libya.

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    has become embroiled in a worsening feud over the issue, with Italy threatening to issue migrants with temporary visas that would allow them to enter other EU countries if no equitable deal is struck to share the burden.


    Brussels is struggling to bring in a new quota system for migrants. The ministers will try to hammer out a response to controversial proposals from the European commission that amount to the beginnings of a coherent and shared immigration policy.


    With tens of thousands of migrants crossing the Mediterranean, most of them heading for Italy, Rome appears outraged at the European infighting and is threatening to retaliate.


    East European states reject the commission’s proposals, Britain and Denmark are opting out; Germany supports them; France, Spain and Portugal are lukewarm; and Italy is furious that it may be left to deal with the influx on its southern shores.


    The Italian prime minister, Matteo Renzi, said that if no equitable deal is struck, Rome would start issuing migrants with temporary visas allowing them to travel elsewhere in Europe, stop receiving the hundreds of boats arriving from Libya and refuse docking for foreign ships rescuing those stranded at sea.


    Austria and Hungary are threatening to close their borders to migrants, and France and Switzerland are refusing them entry from Italy. Police are patrolling international rail traffic, flouting the passport-free travel rules governing Europe’s Schengen area.


    We will hurt EU if migrant crisis is not fixed, says Italian PM Matteo Renzi

    “It’s not looking good,” an EU official said on Monday ahead of the interior ministers’ session.

    The EU is staging special events this week to celebrate 30 years of borderless travel in the Schengen area. Leaders have declared the system irreversible, but it has seldom appeared under greater strain.


    Reacting to the drowning of more than 800 migrants when their boat capsized in the Mediterranean in April, the European commission delivered radical new proposals last month on quotas for migrants to spread across the EU. Britain, Denmark and Ireland do not need to take part in the scheme under the special EU terms they enjoy, but Dublin has said it will take some in.


    The commission’s proposals would start modestly, calling for the distribution across the EU of 60,000 Syrian and Eritrean asylum-seekers, 40,000 already in Italy and Greece and 20,000 still to make the Mediterranean crossing.


    The figures have been criticised as risibly low – more than 600,000 asylum-seekers entered the EU last year – but the commission’s scheme would establish the principle of a shared burden across the EU for the first time.


    Almost 60,000 have already arrived in southern Italy so far this year, more than the equivalent figure for last year. The proposals would redistribute 24,000 from Italy to other countries. Renzi described the figure as a provocation.


    Under the commission proposals, the redistribution of migrants would be binding on 25 of the 28 EU member states. The newer EU countries of eastern Europe, with low immigrant populations, do not want to take part and insist any redistribution should be voluntary rather than mandatory.


    Italy, Germany, Austria and Sweden are the foremost supporters of quotas, but to be accepted, they need to be backed by a qualified majority of countries. The east European members do not have enough support to block the proposals, but would be able to veto if Spain and Portugal joined them. Officials in Brussels said Poland, the biggest of the newer eastern members, was the key country.


    The issue is unlikely to be decided on Tuesday, but will be taken up by an EU leaders’ summit next week in Brussels. The east European countries are keen to renew economic sanctions against Russia over Ukraine, an issue that resonates less strongly in western Europe, and Poland could be persuaded to bend on immigration in return for support on Russia, officials said.


    Germany and France have adopted a joint position, criticising but not rejecting the commission’s quota scheme while setting conditions such as the freezing of visa waiver schemes for the countries of the Balkans, and insisting that Italy fingerprint and register all new arrivals to keep them from travelling north to other EU countries.


    Under EU rules, migrants need to lodge their asylum claim in the first EU country they enter. Italy is demanding changes to the system, but France and Germany stress that it should be left alone.


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    France's Reckoning: Rich, Young Flee Welfare State



    Published on Feb 25, 2014
    France's day of reckoning has arrived: Its wealthy, best and brightest are saying goodbye to a nation they believe doesn't want them to succeed or become affluent.




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