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19 May 2021 "This year 13,358 migrants landed on our coasts, mostly from Libya (8,987) and Tunisia (3,041), with a peak of over 3,500 arrivals in the month of May alone".



This was announced by Interior Minister Luciana Lamorgese during a hearing on the migration phenomenon before the Schengen Parliamentary Committee. 



"I believe that a comparison between all the Member States on the problems linked to the Balkan route is urgent. A comparison that has not yet been planned at the moment". "We need a European mechanism to facilitate the repatriation of migrants at the request of the States concerned".



Lamorgese reiterates that "the stabilization process of Libya is fundamental, a country from which there is an undeniable increase in migratory flows. The historic relationship of collaboration that unites the two countries must be strengthened". 



This is why the Minister of the Interior says on Thursday "Tomorrow I will be in Tunisia with the European Commissioner Johansson to develop a line system dedicated to that country and tackle migrant smuggling together. We need strong support from the European Union, which Johansson already has established". "The package of measures proposed in the new European Pact for Immigration and Asylum is not satisfactory for Italy". 



"For the Pact to come to light, it will still take some time - explained Lamorgese - to file all the aspects that need to be filed". Meanwhile, European Commissioner Johansson is traveling to Italy to meet the owner of the Italian interior.



Tomorrow they will therefore go together to Tunis where they will meet the president of Tunisia, Kais Saied, and the prime minister, Hichem Mechichi. During the meeting, the four participants "will jointly examine the EU-Tunisia partnership on migration and will address in particular the issues of irregular migration, strengthening the fight against migrant smuggling, return and the fight against the root causes of migration" starting from "providing economic opportunities, especially for young people, and the possibility of legal migration", reads the note from the European Commission.