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04 October 2019On migrants we present a decree that does not scream but does the facts ", said the Foreign Minister and head of the M5s Luigi Di Maio presenting the new inter-ministerial decree Foreign-Justice-Interior on migrants to the Farnesina. first step of our safe repatriation plan ", he added, reiterating that the measure" will bring repatriations to a number of countries from two years to four months ".
"We are zero on repatriation. Also in the previous 14 months nothing was done," said Di Maio "I do not believe that the redistribution of migrants in other European countries is the final solution. We must do much more on the system of repatriations ", he added.

The countries included in the new inter-ministerial decree that plans to shorten the time for the repatriation of migrants are Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Albania, Bosnia, Cape Verde, Ghana, Kosovo, Northern Macedonia, Montenegro, Senegal, Serbia and Ukraine.


"I thank Morocco" which is one of the countries that entered the list of countries that will participate in the repatriation program "." In these years we have not strengthened our relations with Morocco, we have been missing for a while. Certainly it will be the subject of one of my next trips, together with Tunisia where we will see the mixed Italian-Tunisian working group to implement the repatriation agreement ", underlined Di Maio.


"We will reduce repatriation times from at least two years to four months. This is the first step in a plan contained in the inter-ministerial decree that we will sign today." "So far the times of repatriation have been stationary: too many bureaucratic delays, including requests for asylum and appeals", the minister continues, according to which "over a third of those arriving in Italy do not have the conditions to stay. We are now speeding up the procedures And we give an important message: those who remain know that they can be at peace, those who cannot stay must go ".




A close on repatriation, expanding and certifying again the list of safe countries and speeding up procedures on the Italian territory. After the announcement in recent days, Luigi Di Maio's decree on migrants arrives.

Among the leaders of the majority Di Maio had been among the most cautious on the Malta agreement on the redistribution of migrants. The theme, since the election campaign of 2018, is among the most "dear" to the leader of the Movement who now, without the cumbersome shadow of Matteo Salvini, tries to put his imprint on the dossier. And it does so starting from repatriations, an undiscovered nerve of the management of the migrant issue even in the yellow-green government.

It is also foreseeable that in the provision there will also be an acceleration of the procedures for the definition of the countries of origin by the territorial commissions. And the Di Maio decree intends to accompany a package of agreements with the African countries "theater" of departures for Europe through Libyan ports. Agreements on which, already in recent months, among other things, the premier Giuseppe Conte worked in his numerous "sorties" in Africa. A close, in short, that goes in the opposite direction to those who instead place the emphasis on the right of individual asylum, and who testifies how, in the yellow-red government, the Movement does not want to give up the grip on the dossier, thus also giving a political response " "to Salvini on a theme that the Northern League leader is preparing to ride even in the next Regionals. "The solution is the blocking of departures", is the mantra that the leader of the M5S has been repeating for days, convinced that with a tightening on repatriation and closer cooperation with African countries landings can really be reduced.