J’accuse has been severely handicapped by an obtuse former monopoly and its incompetent set of technicians (barring a certain Frederic who should be awarded a medal of honour for his attempts at providing a normal service from within a company of idiots). Anyways, this has meant that I am only just about getting up to date with the news and had missed the whole diplomatic confrontation between Malta and Italy over the 150 or so immigrants rescued from certain doom.
I tend to hold the same opinion as the Corriere della Sera correspondent (Giovanni Bianconi) who stated:
Alla fine ha prevalso la volontà di tendere una mano a quei migranti in cerca di futuro, e quando avranno toccato terra ci sarà il tempo per riprendere le discussioni tra governi e ambasciatori su chi aveva il dovere di intervenire. Una volontà che magari poteva affiorare prima, senza arrivare alle condizioni – allarmanti, tragiche o disperate, a seconda delle diverse fonti – in cui versavano i profughi raccolti dalla nave turca. E senza l’immagine un po’ imbarazzante di ministri che si rimbalzavano le responsabilità tra Roma e La Valletta, mentre quei corpi ammassati in coperta aspettavano in mezzo al mare.
Di questi tempi le politiche dell’immigrazione sono complicate, ma puntare i piedi davanti a uomini, donne e bambini che chiedono aiuto non è un bello spettacolo. Meglio cercare soluzioni e accordi prima che si verifichino situazioni come quelle della Pinar, e se al dunque si rivelano inadeguati prima si affronti l’emergenza e poi si torni a discutere di competenze e acque territoriali. Solo con le vite messe in salvo, però, anche se sono «clandestine».
Human lives first, diplomacy and politics later. Which is not to say that once the human lives have been brought in to safety we should not be examining who was at fault. My cursory view of what has been going on leads me to point an accusatory finger to Minister Maroni of Lega Nord fame. In fact, barring his usual somersaults in order to denigrate (or deverdate) the Greens involvement in the whole matter, I tend to agree with Fausto’s assessment of the absolute incompetence, crass populistic approach with which the Ministro dei Marroni went about dealing with this issue.
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Un’altra lettura della vicenda tra Roma e La Valletta:
Malta – Niente soccorso a migranti ma grandi pretese
(or Having your kirxa and eating it)
http://temi.repubblica.it/limes/malta-niente-soccorso-a-migranti-ma-grandi-pretese/3727
Don’t quite get the point about the Greens here. Unless you are referring to the colour of the Lega Nord.
Foreign Affairs Minister Tonio Borg yesterday reiterated Malta’s position and said it would not give in to any pressure to sign the amendment or to reduce its search and rescue area.
He said this decision was taken during a Cabinet meeting and it was final: “Everything will remain as it is. According to the rules, we are right. Proof of this is the fact Mr Maroni said we should change the rules.
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