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Italy Blocks 35 Migrants From Leaving Rescue Ship

  • #Libya
  • #Germany
  • #Italy
  • #Ship travel
  • #Immigration & refugees
  • #Europe
  • #Headlines
  • #Norway
  • #France
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NOV 2022
Image copyright: AFP/Getty Images [via DW]
story last updated NOV 2022

The Spin

Left narrative

The attitude toward refugees in need highlights the new Italian government's racist and xenophobic nature. This is also underscored by Meloni's call for a "sea blockade" against people seeking protection and a better life. Added to this are scandalous earlier statements by the neo-fascists about the "ethnic substitution" of the Italian population by migrants. Rome's populist feeding of fears contradicts European values and must not be tolerated within the EU.

ABC news

Right narrative

The Meloni government is finally standing up for Italy, and has proposed a long-term solution to the migration crisis that actually makes sense: establish European asylum application centers in North Africa to deter illegal crossings in the first place. But until this can be done, other EU countries must step up. As a main port of entry, Italy is one of the EU countries that receives the most migrants — including from safe African countries, as the result of people smuggling. This is no longer sustainable or fair.

Atlantic Sentinel

Establishment-critical narrative

While all eyes are now on Italy, the West, with its neocolonial policies and imperial logic, is itself responsible for the ongoing migration and refugee crisis and the rise of populist and right-wing governments in Europe, such as that of Giorgia Meloni in Italy. It must not be ignored that, ultimately, it was NATO's "humanitarian intervention" that destroyed Libya and opened Pandora's box.

Standardmedia

Political split

LEFT

RIGHT

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