This is why Giorgia Meloni reacts violently to the events in Ceuta – On Tuesday, a completely new show is on the table

The Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni , who reacted violently to the Ceuta crisis on Friday, is now rapidly preparing the next step, which concerns the entire European Union. It is about outsourcing the asylum search outside the Union. Meloni has tried it so far without success throughout his term as prime minister.

The largest Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera Matteo Piantedosi will bring a concrete proposal on the issue to the meeting of EU interior ministers to be held on Tuesday.

It is not only about processing asylum applications, but also about establishing return centers for illegal immigrants. The centers would be financed with EU funds and they would be mainly located in Africa. According to the list seen by Corriere della Sera, it would be Rwanda, Ghana, Senegal, Tunisia, Libya, Mauritania, Egypt, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Armenia, Montenegro and Ethiopia.

According to Italian information, Meloni prepared the matter in his phone conversation on Friday with the Danish Prime Minister With Mette Frederiksen. The result of the same discussion was a letter signed by a total of 22 EU countries, asking Ireland, chaired by the Presidency, to organize an emergency meeting of the Minister of the Interior.

The background is also influenced by the forum on immigration issues launched by Meloni in 2024 for the leaders of certain EU countries. From October 2024, it has met before every European Council. Among the big EU countries Emmanuel Macron‘s France and Pedro Sánchez‘s Spain have left the forum.

The same division was visible. according to experts, in response to the situation in Ceuta on Friday. Italy, which demanded the exclusion of Spain from the Schengen area, got the support of Finland and Denmark, among other things. Instead, France supported Spain.

Roberto Vannacci breathing down Meloni’s neck

Giorgia Meloni’s motives are domestic politics. According to Italian political commentators, he wants to show that he has not forgotten about immigration. Immigration and immigration were the main themes of Meloni’s election campaign in 2022, but as the prime minister of the third largest EU country, he has had to moderate his speeches.

This is estimated to be one of the things that has turned Meloni and the Fratelli d’Italia he leads with a neo-fascist background. – to the decline in the party’s support. At the same time, Futuro Nazionale, founded by the openly racist Roberto Vannacci , is increasing its support from the Gallup poll.

The flow of Moroccans who arrived in Ceuta at the end of this week offered Melon a valuable opportunity to profileas an immigration-critical prime minister, and he did not fail to use it. However, the end result is an EU that is even worse divided than before. For example, the British think-tank Chatham House directly says that such an attitude only helps those who want to create pressure on Europe.

The reactions of Italy and its supporters, Finland and Denmark, have the distinguished foreign and security policy researcher, Johns Hopkins University professor Nathalie Tocci, it is also about anti-EU. He believes that in “normal” politics, solidarity with Spain would have been the only possible reaction to the situation in Ceuta.

“Instead, the reactions of the extreme right are yet another proof that there is no such thing as a ‘reasonable’ extreme right. There are only different ways in which extreme right forces are trying to break up European integration”, Tocci commented on Sunday.