(ANSA) - Rome, August 28 - Comedian-turned-politician Beppe
Grillo, whose anti-establishment 5-Star Movement (M5S) is
Italy's second-largest party, on Friday called for a Merkel Plan
for Africa so that refugees will stop coming to Europe.
Grillo's plan, to be modeled after the Marshall Plan with
which the United States helped rebuild Europe after World War
II, would call for each nation to contribute a quota of its GDP
to massive investment in Africa.
"Tanks, barbed wire and sinking ships won't stop the
ongoing biblical migration," Grillo wrote on his popular blog.
"It is mandatory we give these people better life
opportunities in their own countries with targeted investments
(health care, infrastructure, delocalization of production
plants) with a new Marshall Plan we could update to a Merkel
Plan".
Grillo also called for an end to the arms industry as a way
to stopping wars and the massive displacement of people.
Grillo urges Merkel Plan for Africa
Modeled after Marshall Plan, to be financed with quota of GDP