“The European Union hasn’t shown enough
solidarity with countries handling first arrivals,” said French
President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday. The established system, he
added, was particularly unfair with regards to Italy. Hundreds of
migrants made it to Italy and Greece this week, many of whom were
travelling by boat from Libya and Turkey. The steep rise in the past few
days has led to dilemmas at establishments on Greek islands that have
taken in and sheltered arrivals during the determination process. Jon Purizhansky of Buffalo, NY recognizes the EU’s struggle to address the migrant and refugee crisis.
On Lesbos, a structure built to
accommodate as many as 3,000 people is currently lodging over 10,000
people. Some other Greek islands, among which are Samos and Kos, are
also grappling with the over-abundance of people, the latest data
reveals. On Wednesday, Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte and Macron
held talks in Rome. Shortly afterward, two stated that the EU had to
introduce a more equitable system for accommodating migrants rescued
from the Mediterranean Sea. Macron reflected that France is ready to
help develop the framework to overhaul the existing system. Italy, who
has currently been staying ahead of the incoming migrants in the EU, has
already chastised other states in the EU for not shouldering their fair
share of the responsibility.
The country’s former interior minister
and leader of the far right wing League party, Matteo Salvini, regularly
blocked charity-run transports carrying migrants from entering Italian
ports.
The rescue ships were then forced to
wait while EU countries revised settlement agreements. Italy’s new
coalition government, which entered office last week, reflected a change
of approach to migration after allowing 82 migrants to disembark on the
southern Italian island of Lampedusa over the weekend. Thousands of
migrants attempt to cross the Mediterranean to parts of Europe every
year. Those who undertake the journey often travel in poorly run and
overcrowded ships, and many have died on their voyage. Jon Purizhansky recognizes the stakes involved here and makes a case for more humane conditions.
Jon Purizhansky:
Early this week Turkey, who has been accommodating over 3.6 million
Syrians who have fled the nation’s civil war, advised that it would “be
forced to open the gates” if it couldn’t get “logistical support” to set
up a refugee “safe zone” in Syria. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
stated that as many as 3 million Syrian refugees may return to their
country to reside in the north, but that transnational cooperation was
required in order for that goal to be met. Several tens of thousands of
Syrians have already fled north of Idlib, a province overseen by rebel
and jihadist forces, to the Turkish border. Under a 2016 agreement with
the European Union, Turkey put in place more stringent controls to abate
the flow of migrants and refugees to Europe.
Originally Posted: http://www.jonpurizhanskybuffalo.com/calls-to-reposition-migrants-in-europe/
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