{"id":1027,"date":"2017-07-04T22:20:39","date_gmt":"2017-07-04T20:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fondazionekian.com\/?p=1027"},"modified":"2017-07-04T22:28:12","modified_gmt":"2017-07-04T20:28:12","slug":"action-plan-to-support-italy-reduce-pressure-and-increase-solidarity-in-the-central-mediterranean-route","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fondazionekian.com\/?p=1027&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Action plan to support Italy, reduce pressure and increase solidarity in the central Mediterranean route"},"content":{"rendered":"
The European Union and its member states have progressively laid out a stronger and more articulated policy response to save lives and better manage migratory flows in the central mediterranean, but the loss of life and continuing migratory flows of primarily economic migrants on the central mediterranean route is a structural challenge and remains an issue of urgent and serious concern.<\/div>\n
Italy has already been taking important steps to support cooperation with Libya on migration management and to further improve the implementation of the european migration policy within Italy.<\/div>\n
The recent Minniti law has the objective of making the Italian asylum and return system much more effective than today identifying quickly those in need of protection, while taking actions that can facilitate the swift return of economic migrants.<\/div>\n
With the situation becoming ever more pressing along the Central Mediterranean Route, the european Union is setting out a series of immediate measures that can be taken by the european Member States and Italy itself.<\/div>\n
Building on the work of the past two years to save lives at sea and manage the increasing numbers of arrivals along the Central Mediterranean Route, all actors now need to intensify and accelerate their efforts in line with the increasing urgency of the situation and the commitments undertaken by european leaders.The european Commission President said:<\/p>\n

The dire situation in the Mediterranean is neither a new nor a passing reality. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We have made enormous progress over the past two and half years towards a genuine european migration policy but the urgency of the situation now requires us to seriously accelerate our collective work and not leave Italy on its own. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The focus of our efforts has to be on solidarity \u2013 with those fleeing war and persecution and with our Member States under the most pressure. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

At the same time, we need to act, in support of\u00a0Libya, to fight smugglers and enhance border control to reduce the number of people taking hazardous journeys to Europe.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In particular, will be forseen a set of measures to be taken now to accelerate the european Union’s collective work along the central mediterranean route, including notably that:<\/span><\/p>\n