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Why Giorgia Meloni is key to ‘stopping the boats’

Meloni’s plan to ‘stop the boats’

15 April 2023

9:00 AM

15 April 2023

9:00 AM

  Ravenna, Italy

 

Whatever Rishi Sunak does to ‘stop the boats’, the fight to prevent illegal immigration to Britain and Europe will not be won or lost in the English Channel. It will be decided in the sea between Italy and Africa.

At a recent EU summit in Brussels, Giorgia Meloni, Italy’s new right-wing Prime Minister, warned that if the crisis-torn dictatorship of Kais Saied in Tunisia falls, then there will be ‘an invasion’ of Italy this year of ‘up to 900,000 migrants’.

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