Valerio Valenti, head of the Interior
Ministry's Department for Civil Liberties and Immigration, has
been appointed commissioner delegate for the state of emergency
for migrants in 14 regions of Italy's 20 regions, civil
protection head Fabrizio Curcio said Sunday.
The regions are Piedmont, Liguria, Lombardy, Veneto, Friuli
Venezia Giulia, Umbria, Marche, Lazio, Abruzzo, Molise,
Basilicata, Calabria, Sardinia, and Sicily, as well as the
Autonomous Provinces of Trento and Bolzano.
The government last Tuesday called the migrant state of
emergency after a dramatic recent rise in flows.
The cabinet proclaimed a state of emergency on all the national
territory following the exceptional rise in migrant flows across
the Mediterranean, at the proposal of Sea and Civil Protection
Minister Nello Musumeci.
The state of emergency, backed by initial funding of five
million euros, will last six months, sources said outside the
cabinet meeting that proclaimed it.
Opposition parties and associations on Wednesday slammed the
cabinet decision to decree a six-month nationwide state of
emergency on migration, insisting that is it dangerous to
portray migrants and refugees arriving in Italy as an emergency.
Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi said on Friday he agreed
with the Italian Bishops' Conference that there is no migrant
emergency per se and that the problems are technical in nature.
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