Meloni said at a summit in Rome that the EU should support African states to help stop migrants from trying to reach Europe.
ROME – Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni on Sunday called for new, more equal relationships between Europe and migrants’ countries of origin and transit as she convened a summit of some 20 nations, EU officials and international organizations aimed at stanching flows of illegal migration.
Human rights groups see the meeting, which includes nations from both northern and sub-Saharan Africa as well as the Middle East, as creating a future roadmap, and worry it will amount to anti-migrant policies that put the onus on Africa to keep Africans out of Europe. “The West too often has given the impression of being more interested in giving lessons rather than lending a hand,” Meloni said. “It is probably this diffidence that has made it difficult to make progress on solutions.”Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni, right, talks Tunisian President Kaïs Saïed during an International conference on migration in Rome, Sunday, July 23, 2023.
“The West too often has given the impression of being more interested in giving lessons rather than lending a hand,” Meloni said. “It is probably this diffidence that has made it difficult to make progress on solutions.
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