The central migration issue in the European debate

The migration issue returns to the center of the European debate, after the request of Italy and Malta, which will bring the problem to the attention of the EU council of foreign ministers on July 15th. The intention would be to pass the examination of each individual case to find a mechanism capable of managing migration flows. This discussion will anticipate the same topic that will be dealt with after the informal meeting of interior ministers, scheduled in Helsinki on 18 and 19 July. The pressure of migratory traffic and the effects of the Dublin Treaty have created a profound inequality on the European coastal states, not only Italy and Malta, but also Greece and Spain, however the proximity of Libya and the effects of the ongoing civil war have generated a increased traffic to Rome and Valletta, creating dangerous political drifts and increasing the risks to the lives of migrants and the conditions to which they are subjected in Libyan detention centers, in addition to a significant increase in profits for human traffickers. In Italy the debate on immigration has been led to have as a central topic the activity of non-governmental organizations and their activity of patrolling the sea, which has led to numerous rescues of refugees on drifting vehicles. Laws have been created to hit these organizations, which are only partly responsible for the arrival of refugees, distracting public opinion from the complexity of the problem; in fact most of the arrivals are made up of refugees who arrive on Italian soil autonomously and with small boats, some of which do not make the entire crossing from the African shores, but are released from larger boats near the Italian coasts. The candidate of the presidency of the European Commission has emphasized that it is an obligation to rescue shipwrecked people and people in distress at sea, this affirmation, certainly acceptable, was supplemented by the awareness, for the candidate, of the difficulty of the coastal countries and the promise of a reform of the regulation on asylum seekers, a problem that must be addressed by all European countries as a whole. The limitation to asylum seekers only is, however, only part of the problem, since the whole of immigration is represented, not only by those who flee from wars but also by climatic migrants, by those who flee from famines, by political persecuted and by economic migrants. It is a mass of people facing unspeakable suffering and suffering, against whose closure the closure of Europe is not enough. What Brussels has to put in place is a project of wider scope, capable of not limiting itself to managing the reception, but also to prevention, with targeted and concrete help. On the welcome side it is important to develop methodologies that have already been tried out in small ways, such as humanitarian corridors, which can guarantee to avoid the dangers of travel, can eliminate the revenues of traffickers and therefore their re-use in the financing of dangerous activities such as terrorist and even political threats to Europe from those states that have often used the weapon of migrants as a blackmailing tool. These solutions can be implemented in a short or medium term, if Europe has the necessary strength to impose its decisions on the division of refugee quotas even to those who until now have proved unruly, by reducing or canceling contributions. communities, on which Eastern European countries have built their economic growth. Certainly a necessary step is the revision of the Dublin treaty, which is unfair, because it penalizes the countries closest to the starting points of the migratory flows. In a medium-long period it is important to draw up a concrete aid plan that allows real redistributive economic growth in those countries that represent the major contributors of people who feed migratory flows. The difficulty is real, because in many African countries corruption is high and the political structures are anything but consolidated. The starting point may be to eradicate the famines, to create the conditions for the decline of some immigrants; the essential thing to do is that the European Union achieves a cohesion and a level of international authority, which have so far been lacking. The new European bodies must first of all start from these points for the solution of the most urgent problems, of which immigration is only one aspect.