The EU must work for legal, safe
migrant entry into the UNion, Premier Giorgia Meloni said in her
letter to the European Council which has secured a slot at the
March 23-4 EU summit for the migrant question.
"We must al work together to reaffirm the principle that you
only enter Europe legally and therefore in a condition of total
safety and security," she said in the letter, a copy of which
was made available Wednesday.
She called on the EU to "develop and boost legal migration
channels, split between those who are entitled to protection and
those who intend to enter for work reasons," as well as
''fighting without hesitancy the criminal clans that feul mass
illegal immigration.
Meloni said that ''without concrete intervention by the EU,
starting in the coming weeks and for the whole year, migrant
pressure will be unprecedented, given the difficult context that
strikes vast zones of the planet''.
Meloni also called for urgent funding for the countries of
migrant origin to aid development there and stop people having
to leave in search of better lives.
The migrant issue has returned to the forefront of international
politics with a major shipwreck off Calabria that is thought to
have claimed over 100 lives.
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