Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is a successful head of government, who, while mostly aligning herself with common-sense, conservative views of the world, is also engaging in a lot of NATO warmongering towards Russia.
Now, Meloni is out calling for a problem she identified that mixes these two aspects of her political profile, as she calls for defending Europe’s borders against illegal migration while at the same time denouncing the ‘Russian threat to Europe’.
Meloni has come out and accused Russia of ‘orchestrating illegal migration into Europe’ to destabilize the bloc.
She is calling for stronger defense of the region’s eastern and southern flanks.
The Telegraph reported:
“’We have to understand the threat is much wider than we imagine’, the Italian prime minister said on Sunday, during a North-South security summit of the leaders of Italy, Greece, Sweden and Finland.
‘We want to defend external borders and we don’t want to allow Russia or criminal organizations to undermine our security’, added Ms. Meloni, a hard-Right politician who leads a conservative government coalition.”
Russia has denied deliberately pushing migrants into the EU as a means to undermine security.
While Finland has an 830-mile land border with Russia to patrol, while Italy and Greece face a veritable invasion at sea.
‘“What we understood in this meeting is our borders are very different, so they need different tools. What happens here in Finland, where a fence is useful, cannot be done in the Mediterranean’, Ms. Meloni said at the summit in Lapland.”
Ms. Meloni discussed border protection with Sweden’s Ulf Kristersson and Finland’s Petteri Orpo.
Orpo, Finland’s prime minister, said they are working to protect the EU’s external borders.
“While Nato remains the ‘cornerstone’ of European security, Ms. Meloni said, attention must also be paid to critical infrastructure, artificial intelligence, cyber security, raw materials, supply chains – and especially migration, which demands a united, yet geographically tailored approach.”
Meloni believes that using countries outside the EU to manage asylum requests remains a viable approach, despite the obstacles by Globalist Judges that Italy encountered with its processing centers in Albania.
“’Tackling the issue of illegal immigration solely as a solidarity-based debate was a mistake,’ she said. ‘The result is that we have been unable to protect our borders’.”
On Friday, Italy’s deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini was acquitted of ‘kidnapping’ more than 100 migrants aboard a boat that he forbade to dock in Italian ports in 2019.
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