The alleged ‘nationalist’ Italian Prime Minister Georgia Meloni has announced she intends to surrender more national sovereignty to the European Union by allowing the bloc to assume control of Europe’s southern borders.
Meloni told the Italian parliament on Wednesday morning, “Italy will support … the creation of a European naval mission, in agreement and cooperation with the North African authorities.”
She also wants the EU to allocate increased funds to combat the recent influx of illegal migrants surging through Italy’s borders in its multi-year budget for 2021 to 2027.
The last naval mission, called “Operation Sophia,” was launched at the height of the 2015 Migration Crisis to tackle illegal migration smuggling channels being exploited in North Africa. However, the programme ended in March 2020 due to insufficient resources.
Despite being elected on a populist, anti-immigration manifesto, Meloni has allowed over 120,000 illegal immigrants to cross into Italy in 2023 alone. Former President of the European Parliament Martin Schulz even admitted that the bloc managed to discipline populists like Meloni into accepting the bloc’s globalist policies.
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