Rome, 1 August (LaPresse) – “Now that Spain – alone and isolated by Meloni’s Italy – has repatriated 48,000 migrants, Meloni is changing her tune and talking to us about a European response to immigration; she’s suddenly rediscovering herself as the most pro-European of them all, having realised the mess she made yesterday. Her court of newspapers and TV stations will now help her turn the tables. Until just a few hours ago, she was spreading fake news and making announcements aimed at isolating Spain in the face of a crisis across the sea, on the African continent, which has nothing to do with European coasts, our borders or the Schengen agreements. This propaganda served to hide Italy’s failures on security, immigration and the cost of living, as well as the embarrassment caused by chat messages from party colleagues involving frontmen for mafia clans.” M5S leader Giuseppe Conte wrote this on social media. “Remember when Meloni found herself in the summer of 2023 facing a record number of arrivals in Lampedusa (with her government boasting a surge of over 320,000 arrivals)? At the time, she wrote a heartfelt letter to von der Leyen begging her to come to Lampedusa and bring European support. Spain supported us and extended a helping hand at a time of great difficulty for us. An emergency that was not in Ceuta, nor in Africa. But in Italy, in Europe. Having isolated and cast blame on Spain yesterday has opened a wound with a friendly country,” adds the former prime minister. He concludes.
Migrants: Conte says, “First Meloni isolates Spain, and now she’s suddenly a pro-European”
Rome, 1 August (LaPresse) – “Now that Spain – alone and isolated by Meloni’s Italy – has repatriated 48,000 migrants, Meloni is changing her tune and talking to us about a European response to immigration; she’s suddenly rediscovering herself as the most pro-European of them all, having realised the mess she made yesterday. Her court of newspapers and TV stations will now help her turn the tables. Until just a few hours ago, she was spreading fake news and making announcements aimed at isolating Spain in the face of a crisis across the sea, on the African continent, which has nothing to do with European coasts, our borders or the Schengen agreements. This propaganda served to hide Italy’s failures on security, immigration and the cost of living, as well as the embarrassment caused by chat messages from party colleagues involving frontmen for mafia clans.” M5S leader Giuseppe Conte wrote this on social media. “Remember when Meloni found herself in the summer of 2023 facing a record number of arrivals in Lampedusa (with her government boasting a surge of over 320,000 arrivals)? At the time, she wrote a heartfelt letter to von der Leyen begging her to come to Lampedusa and bring European support. Spain supported us and extended a helping hand at a time of great difficulty for us. An emergency that was not in Ceuta, nor in Africa. But in Italy, in Europe. Having isolated and cast blame on Spain yesterday has opened a wound with a friendly country,” adds the former prime minister. He concludes.
