ROMA (ITALPRESS) – The Schengen suspension measure with Spain “is one month, so in reality the prefixed deadline is at the end of August” but “we reserved ourselves to see the evolution of the situation, then starting from August 15” we will see “what happens, but more generally” we will see “all the dangers that have been thwarted”. Thus the Interior Minister, Matteo Piantedosi, at “10 minutes” on Rete4.
According to “the news that the same Spanish institutions and intelligence agencies have underlined, there is this call on social media to a new wave of departures that could press the Earth’s frontier of Ceuta. At the moment, we know that the Spanish and Moroccan institutions have organized themselves to counter these eventualities. We are at the window, we hope that Spain, in collaboration with Morocco, will be able to avoid another episode like what we saw at the end of July,” the minister continues.
In Ceuta “something very important happened, the access of almost 80.000 people, the permanence on the territory of Ceuta of a variable number between 6 and 10,000 people”. The risk of any terrorist infiltration “was always guarded with utmost caution”, is “a risk that was also reported by Spanish intelligence agencies”, emphasizes the owner of Viminale.
Those of the migration flows “are issues of epochal scope that concern the security of citizens of the nations that make up the European Union, but also of the European Union in its entirety”, he adds. The subject of immigration “travels on a dual track: the affirmation of European rules on the one hand and the protection of national interests” on the other, but there is no “no arm of iron. With Germany, as with Spain, we have an excellent collaboration relationship,” he continues.
“We believe that all that concerns so-called ‘dublinentì, so the old rule for which the countries of the first landing are competent to assist applicants for international protection, has been the subject of an agreement with Germany that has in fact resetted the previous numbers and these people who have said that they can be transferred fall into these pre-accession numbers,” he explains.
“In addition we believe that, in the overall reasoning that is done on this issue, there is also that of people” who enter “in international waters on board of NGO ships batting German flag. It is a discussion that we are having, serene and fruitful. I am sure that the relationship we have with Germany will allow us to address “this issue with the balance with which we have always characterized our relations so far”.
For the future, “I believe that Europe will bring together states to develop repatriation centres or to carry out border procedures that can also be implemented in third countries than the European Union.” Is it possible also in Africa? “Of course, the conceptual limit that there must be is that they are located in so-called ‘terzi sicurì countries, where there are security conditions and that this can happen without the compromise of the fundamental rights of people. Africa offers wide margins,” he concludes.
(ITALPRESS)
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