Italy-Tunisia migrant crisis highlights failed EU policy
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RUSSELS — The EU, angrily accused by Italy of leaving it “on its own” to deal with an influx of Tunisian refugees, remains relatively powerless to act on illegal immigration due to a lack of means and will.
Italy’s Interior Minister Roberto Maroni sent shockwaves across Europe this weekend by suggesting Italian troops intervene in Tunisia to block a flux of 5,000 arrivals in five days from the North African country.
The reason for his proposed military intervention? “Europe is not doing anything.... As usual we’re on our own,” he said.
His attack irritated the European commissioner in charge of the issue, Cecilia Malmstroem, whose proposals to European Union member states to improve action against illicit migration are repeatedly rejected, one of her aides told AFP..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110216com3.html
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