{"id":323992,"date":"2022-11-06T12:28:22","date_gmt":"2022-11-06T17:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/?p=323992"},"modified":"2022-11-06T12:28:22","modified_gmt":"2022-11-06T17:28:22","slug":"italy-is-a-fully-sovereign-country-germany-demands-italys-conservative-government-allows-1000-migrants-on-ngo-ships-to-dock-in-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/2022\/11\/italy-is-a-fully-sovereign-country-germany-demands-italys-conservative-government-allows-1000-migrants-on-ngo-ships-to-dock-in-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Italy is a fully sovereign country\u2019 \u2013 Germany demands Italy\u2019s conservative government allows 1,000 migrants on NGO ships to dock in Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"

by John Cody, ReMix<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\" Italy argues that German ships flying German flags should be responsible for the migrants<\/p>\n

Three NGO ships with more than 1,000 people on board are waiting to dock off the Italian coast, but Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi are firmly refusing German demands that the ships dock in Italian ports.<\/p>\n

TRUTH LIVES on at\u00a0https:\/\/sgtreport.tv\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Rome\u2019s foreign ministry confirmed on Thursday that it had previously sent a verbal note to Berlin asking it to accept the migrants on board the German-registered Humanity 1. The Italian ministry added that the German side had been asked for information on the people on board.<\/p>\n

The diplomatic document, dated Oct. 23, was published on Wednesday by public television channel RAI3. In its response, the Berlin foreign ministry urged Rome to provide assistance as soon as possible to the people on board the NGO boat, including more than 100 minors.<\/p>\n

\u201cRescuing people in mortal danger is the most important thing,\u201d read a statement from German embassy urging Italy allow the boats to dock.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf Germany believes that there is a humanitarian problem, it should take care of it, Italy cannot become the\u00a0refuge\u00a0of all immigrants,\u201d said the Minister for Relations with Parliament Luca Ciriani while\u00a0speaking<\/a>\u00a0on the \u201cAgor\u00e0\u201d show on the Rai3 television channel.<\/p>\n

According to Piantedosi, European countries that flag their vessels should welcome those arriving via the NGOs that use those boats. However, he said the only way to solve the migration flow was to stop departures altogether.<\/p>\n

Ciriani backed Piantedosi\u2019s hard line on migration, saying, \u201cWe cannot simply be the\u00a0terminal\u00a0of choices that take place elsewhere. We are a serious country, Italy is a fully sovereign country.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ciriani also repeated Piantedosi\u2019s position, saying flying German flags should indicate Germany\u2019s responsibility for migrants on those ships.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf it intends to act in international waters, then it must also take responsibility for the choices made by the ships flying its\u00a0flag,\u201d said Ciriani who added, \u201cWe cannot accept that Germany decides for us.\u201d<\/p>\n

As Remix News previously\u00a0reported<\/a>, there are numerous German NGO ships operating in the Mediterranean that rescue migrants but also serve as a draw for many migrants who believe they will be rescued if something goes wrong. The groups have also been accused of cooperating with migrant smugglers and arranging to meet up with smugglers on the open sea to transfer migrants. Many of these ships are\u00a0supported<\/a>\u00a0with funds from German Protestant churches. However, as the German press has reported in the past, the vast majority of these migrants are not refugees, but instead economic migrants<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Italy\u2019s stance may cause another rift within the EU. When Matteo Salvini refused to dock migrants while previously serving as interior minister, migrant numbers dramatically dropped in Italy. However, once he lost power, he was targeted by prosecutors with\u00a0\u201ckidnapping\u201d charges<\/a>\u00a0for defending Italy\u2019s borders and faced harsh prison sentences for his actions.<\/p>\n

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by John Cody, ReMix: Italy argues that German ships flying German flags should be responsible for the migrants Three NGO ships with more than 1,000 people on board are waiting to dock off the Italian coast, but Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi are firmly refusing German demands that the ships dock […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[141639,141640],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323992"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}