In Italy, the government of Giorgia Meloni attacks NGOs that save migrants at sea

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni during her end-of-year press conference in Rome on December 29, 2022. TIZIANA FABI / AFP During the electoral campaign at the end of the summer, Giorgia Meloni, the leader of the far-right Italian party Fratelli d’Italia had revived the idea of ​​a naval blockade to stop boats intervening at sea … Read more

Italy: fifty migrants in distress rescued at sea

Monday, January 2, the Italian coast guard brought to safety about fifty people after repeated calls for help, according to Alarm Phone. SourceAFP About fifty migrants were in distress. © MSF Sea Twitter Published on 01/03/2023 at 02:08 – Modified 01/03/2023 at 02:34 I subscribe to 1€ the 1st month Un new tragedy in the … Read more

Italy imposes new obstacles to NGOs that rescue migrants at sea: more fines and may confiscate their boats

The Italian government, led by the far-right Giorgia Meloni, approved on Wednesday night a decree law by which it will be able to fine and confiscate the NGO boats carrying out rescues in the Mediterranean and that do not comply with current legislation. The text published after the meeting of the Council of Ministers advanced … Read more

Italy hinders NGOs that rescue migrants at sea

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The Italian government continues its battle against NGOs that rescue migrants in the Mediterranean, but the struggle has entered a new, less aggressive phase for avoid a direct clash with Brussels and its European partners, as happened a few weeks ago. The Executive of the far-right Giorgia Meloni approved a decree on Wednesday night to … Read more

Italy puts obstacles to limit the rescues of NGOs that save migrants at sea

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The Italian government continues its battle against NGOs that rescue migrants in the Mediterranean, but the struggle has entered a new, less aggressive phase for avoid a direct clash with Brussels and its European partners, as happened a few weeks ago. The Executive of the far-right Giorgia Meloni approved a decree on Wednesday night to … Read more

Meloni’s Italy tightens rules for rescuing migrants at sea

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The Italian government of Giorgia Meloni has approved a series of tougher new measures against NGOs helping migrants at sea, with penalties ranging from a fine to the seizure of vessels. A decree approved late Wednesday evening by the Council of Ministers and of which Reuters was able to consult a copy, requires ships to … Read more

Italy may confiscate NGO boats that rescue migrants at sea

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A group of migrants waits on the Ocean Viking ship to disembark in the port of Salerno, last August. A group of migrants waits on the Ocean Viking ship to disembark in the port of Salerno, last August. The Italian government, led by the ultra-right Giorgia Meloniapproved last night a decree law by which it … Read more

Doctors Without Borders: “If Italy keeps humanitarian ships away from the Mediterranean, the risk of deaths at sea increases”

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“Let’s look at it this way: if there is no ambulance, the sick person is not helped and maybe dies. And I have never seen an ambulance sent to the furthest hospital”.Other than sea taxis. Richard Gatti, head of rescue operations on the Geo Barents of Doctors Without Borders, thus analyzes the new squeeze on … Read more

Record heat in Italy (and swimming in the sea), freezing in the US: “Two faces of climate change”

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Of Alessio Ribaudo 2022 is the record year for the National Research Council. In the US it freezes, here you swim in the sea. They are for two sides of the same coin: the climate that changes by distorting the weather Two sides of the same coin: climate change. On the one hand, the eastern … Read more

After the Ocean Viking, France calls on Italy to respect “the law of the sea”

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Paris will not welcome asylum seekers who have arrived in Italy as long as Rome does not “respect the law of the sea” and refuses the disembarkation of rescued migrant ships in the Mediterranean, French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin warned on Friday. in Brussels. The “southern Mediterranean countries must also open their ports” to migrant … Read more