4um: Salvini: "Italy Will No Longer Accept Refugees" As Spain Volunteers

Title: Salvini: "Italy Will No Longer Accept Refugees" As Spain Volunteers
Source: Zero Hedge
URL Source: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2018/06 ... -says-no-to-any-more-migrants/
Published: Jun 12, 2018
Author: Tyler Durden
Post Date: 2018-06-12 08:42:06 by Ada
Keywords: None
Views: 65
Comments: 7

Over the weekend, Italy once again roiled Europe, only this time not with its plunging bonds but with its drastic shift in immigration politics, when the country’s new populist leader, Matteo Salvini, now operating as Minister of the Interior, made good on his warning last weekend that “the good times for illegals are over”, writing an urgent letter ordering Malta to accept a ship carrying 629 shipwrecked North African migrants currently sitting off the Italian coast – calling Malta the “safest port” for the passengers, and advising that Rome will no longer offer refuge.

The Italian message to Europe was simple: having been the port of landing for tens of thousands of migrants in the past two years, Rome would no longer accept boat after boat of North African (or middle eastern) refugees.

Italy’s vocal resistance to accepting further migrants even prompted prominent globalist George Soros, the person many have accused of being behind Europe’s forced migration patterns, to urge the EU to compensate Italy for the 100,000+ migrants landing there, noting that the strong showing of far-right parties partly is due to Europe’s ‘flawed’ migration policies. Democracy-The God That... Hans-Hermann Hoppe Best Price: $27.99 Buy New $39.59 (as of 05:10 EDT - Details)

As for Italy’s “suggestion” that the Mediterranean island of Malta accept the migrants, not surprisingly it fell on deaf ears.

But if Italy (and Malta) would no longer accept migrants, and with Merkel’s “open door” policies in Germany now a taboo, the question remained: who would accept the countless boats of migrants still headed for Europe?

Moments ago we got the answer when that “other” PIIG, Spain, offered on Monday to take in the rescue ship MV Aquarius, that has been drifting in the Mediterranean sea with 629 migrants stranded on board after Italy and Malta refused to let it dock.

Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, who took office just over a week ago, has given instructions for the boat to be admitted to the eastern port of Valencia, his office said in a statement.

I saw that sickening headline about Spain. Not too happy about Italy's Malta suggestion, delighted Malta apparently stiffed it.

I'm counting the days since Salvini and friends swept to power. So far it's 11 of 'em and no word of them booting any invaders out of the country?

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Spain's socialist PM needs EU backing for his Catalonia policy and has to make nice with Brussels.

Thank you for your insight on this and other matters global. You boil it down for us very nicely.

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EU REBELLION: French MPs back Italy decision to trash EU rules and TURN-AWAY migrant ship

EU MIGRANT policy suffered another body blow today after senior FRENCH politicians applauded Italy’s shock move to refuse to let a migrant ship carrying 629 refugees dock in Italian ports.

French conservative lawmaker Eric Ciotti said no French port should take in the Aquarius, the humanitarian ship stranded in international waters in the Mediterranean since Saturday.

“No French port – not Corsica, not Nice, not Marseille [should take in the Aquarius],” Mr Ciotti told the French television channel CNews, adding that the migrant ship should “head back towards the Libyan coast”.

“Do we want Nice to become the next Lampedusa?” he said, referring to the Italian island which has become a popular landing point for migrants. “I hope France will hold firm on this issue”.

Italy and Malta have both refused to let the rescue ship, whose passengers include 11 children and seven pregnant women rescued off the coast of Libya by the French charity SOS Mediterranée on the weekend, to dock, prompting the European Union and the UN’s refugee agency to call for an end to the standoff.

On Monday, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, a socialist who took power less than two weeks ago, said that the ship could dock in the eastern port of Valencia, where it is currently headed.

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