\u201cIf we fail to meet the challenge of the Mediterranean, the winner in Europe will be the populist movements; by now the future depends to a varying extent on our ability to work out the problems of the Mediterranean\u201d. Deputy Foreign Minister Marta Dass\u00f9 launched this message as she participated today in a conference at the Chamber of Deputies in Rome entitled \u201cMediterranean and migration: a new European policy of peace, democracy and development\u201d.<\/P>
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Arab Spring viewed over-optimistically and simplistically<\/STRONG><\/STRONG><\/P> \u201cThe link between the Mediterranean and Europe is not clear either to political forces or citizens, but if it is not managed rationally, the European project will be overtaken by anti-Europe parties\u201d, which find a \u201cvery useful\u201d topic in the issue of migration, explained Dass\u00f9, according to whom, \u201cwe will not succeed in developing a Mediterranean policy that works, if we do not let go of the clich\u00e9s that we have been applying to the Arab Spring\u201d, which has been viewed \u201cover optimistically and simplistically\u201d; she also recalled how, even more than the Arab Spring, what has happened along the southern shores of the Mediterranean has been a \u201creawakening, that carries a series of problems and contradictions with it\u201d. A long-term process, therefore, \u201cthat will be very difficult to govern\u201d and towards which Europe will have to have a \u201chumble\u201d approach, without pretending to \u201cimpose its own recipes\u201d.<\/P> \u201cMare Nostrum\u201d has gained little solidarity from Europe<\/STRONG><\/STRONG><\/P> On the topic of immigration, Marta Dass\u00f9 then pointed out how Italy \u201cis quite disappointed\u201d by the EU\u2019s response to the boat-landing emergency of recent months. \u201cNo major progress has been made; we have sought solidarity on \u201cMare Nostrum\u201d but, in reality, have received very little\u201d, with the exception of Slovenia, the Deputy Minister added, noting that the \u201cDublin II System does not adequately recognise the burden on the countries of initial impact\u201d. Today, Dass\u00f9 warned, it is not enough to respond to citizens with promises of solidarity, what is needed is a European policy that lightens the load on the countries of first landing. A burden that Italy has been bearing, given, for example, that in the first 10 months of 2013 40,000 new landings were recorded, with Lampedusa alone the point of arrival of more than 14,000 migrants. Numbers that threaten to fan nationalistic embers, according to Minister for Integration Cecile Kyenge, who also spoke at the conference. \u201cAs European society opens to the world, xenophobic and protectionist political movements are gaining ground, claiming to defend national identities and home interests but that do entirely the opposite\u201d, Kyenge added.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIf we fail to meet the challenge of the Mediterranean, the winner in Europe will be the populist movements; by now the future depends to a varying extent on our ability to work out the problems of the Mediterranean\u201d. Deputy Foreign Minister Marta Dass\u00f9 launched this message as she participated today in a conference at […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,43,6,42,399],"class_list":["post-14469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-approfondimenti","tag-africa","tag-diritti-umani","tag-mediterraneo-e-medio-oriente","tag-unione-europea","tag-vice-ministri-e-sottosegretari-precedenti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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