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24 September 2020 "Yesterday the presentation by the president of the European commission Ursula von der Leyen of a new European governance on migration management: from a first analysis we seem to grasp on the one hand elements of discontinuity with respect to the proposals of the years past, but there is no clear overcoming of the Dublin agreements that would put the negotiations ", scheduled for October," with the European Interior Ministers for an overall EU strategy back on the table.

For this reason "we will ask for the complete overcoming of the current system which revolves around the responsibility of the incoming State and which cannot be burdened by burdens that are difficult to bear".

This was stated by the Minister of the Interior Luciana Lamorgese in a hearing with the Parliamentary Control Committee on the implementation of the Schengen agreement.

"

- continued the minister - is not adequate to withstand a very rough sea and they asked to enter Arbatax and asked for refuge in the bay. We gave refuge and we also heard from the European countries, which have given availability to take them all except 25 that should remain in Italy The port is closed we have not given the port, but if the situation of the sea worsens the possibility of disembarking will be given knowing full well that, even if they are under 14 days of quarantine, they will be immediately deployed elsewhere. All this without prejudice to the fact that only 25 will remain on the national territory ".

On Sea-Watch's humanitarian ship, Alan Kurdi, there are over 130 migrants.

"

- explained Lamorgese - has given the possibility of providing additional flights for a greater possible repatriation: in addition to two a week with 40 people each, from October additional flights will be provided applying criteria of maximum flexibility".

"Between today and tomorrow - he announced - the hotspot of

will be completely emptied

. Between tonight and tomorrow everyone will be able to find a place in the ships we have on the island".

Lamorgese also specified that "the ships for the quarantine of migrants have increased: five ships are used and currently there are 2,338 people. We have 14 structures on the territory used for the application of anti-Covid measures, we have several areas in other centers for a total of 30 thousand seats ".

Regarding the redistribution of those who were in fiduciary isolation in Sicily, "8 thousand have been redistributed throughout the country".

With regard to the

provided for by the new Pact, the minister underlined: "I do not know to what extent these can actually be effective: because the hypotheses of giving return responsibilities to Member States other than those of disembarkation seem difficult to me which can be combined with efficiency and speed. I would like to understand what are the practical and legal aspects ".

"The security decree - said the minister -, or immigration, will have to be examined in one of the next CDMs. The aspects of

will also be verified

, which could also become sanctions of a criminal nature. But it is a path that we will undertake with the modification of the decrees ".

Finally,

.

There were 9,139 migrants from Libya who landed in Italy during the year, 40% of the total as of 23 September, compared to 23,273 migrants who had arrived overall since the beginning of the year.

From 1 September 2019, about 9,200 Tunisians landed in Italy while in the same reference period, in the previous year, there were just over 2,600.

Significant increase in arrivals also from Algeria: from 1 January to 23 September 2020, 1,052 Algerian people arrived, compared to 600 in the same period last year.

"The international situation in 2020 - commented the minister - was much more complex and this can only have repercussions on the migratory phenomenon".

With regard to arrivals in Sardinia, on whose coasts the Alan Kurdi humanitarian ship with over 130 migrants on board is currently located, Lamorgese explained that since the beginning of the year there have been about a thousand landings: "a number not very high compared to what happens in the rest of the territory ".

The prefectures of Nuoro and Oristano have ensured the availability of additional structures for the relief of the Cas of Monastir, which hosts about 200 migrants.

As for the Balkan route, since the beginning of the year 3,369 irregular migrants have been traced to the Italian-Slovenian border, compared to 2,745 in the same period in 2019. "However - underlined the owner of the Interior Ministry - readmissions to Slovenia have more than quadrupled ".