Germany supports the proposal to expand air and naval surveillance of the external borders of the European Union in the context of the migration crisis, German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said on Monday.
The measures are part of the ten-point plan on migrants presented on Sunday by the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, in Lampedusa, southern Italy.
“We can’t do anything else, otherwise we won’t have the immigration situation under control,” Faeser told German ARD television.
On Saturday, Faeser participated in a video conference on the situation of migrants in Lampedusa, in which the Italian Minister of the Interior, Matteo Piantedosi, his French counterpart, Gérald Darmanin, and the Commissioner for the Interior, Ylva Johansson, participated.
“We will move forward together to launch a common action plan to, on the one hand, support Italy on a humanitarian level and, on the other, see how to gain more control,” he said.
Meanwhile, the Italian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs stated that the situation of the arrival of immigrants from Africa “is not explosive, it has already exploded”, after the arrival of more than ten thousand people in three days.
Speaking to journalists at the Italian consulate in New York, Antonio Tajani assured that he will bring the issue of migratory pressure to debate at the United Nations general assembly, which begins on Tuesday.
More than 127,000 immigrants have entered Italy since the beginning of the year, almost double the number in the same period in 2022, according to data from the Italian Ministry of the Interior.
Source: TSF
