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Italian vote heralds tougher EU stance on migration
BRUSSELS: The failure of Italy?s neighbours to help out more with a huge influx of migrants boosted the anti-immigrant vote and contributed to the resounding defeat of its ruling party in last weekend?s election, European officials acknowledge.
But given the difficulty of persuading all EU states to take their share of new arrivals, officials in Brussels now believe the bloc will have to take a harsher line on immigration. ?The message we hear is: continue being very, very tough on asylum. Be tough as you can on immigration. And then get even tougher,? said a senior European Union diplomat. Italy?s centre-left Democratic Party won less than a fifth of the votes, losing to anti-establishment and right-wing parties that campaigned hard against immigration. Under pressure from eurosceptic rivals, mainstream EU politicians read it as meaning they must take a hard line on immigration or risk losing power. ?Italy has, it?s undeniable, suffered for months and months under the pressure of migration. This very strong migration pressure is a context we should keep in mind,? said French President Emmanuel Macron. About 170,000 refugees and migrants crossed the Mediterranean to Italy in 2014, according to UN figures. In the next two years arrivals were 154,000 and 181,500, before falling to 119,000 in 2017. Italy and Greece bore the brunt of the influx as the EU struggled to manage a crisis that delivers daily reminders of its urgency.African immigrants marched through Florence on Monday chanting ?no more racism? after an Italian man shot dead a Senegalese street vendor earlier in the day. On Tuesday, officials said 21 migrants were missing and feared drowned when a rubber dinghy and a wooden boat had to be rescued after setting off from Libya for Italy. The crisis that reached a head in 2015, when more than a million people arrived in Europe from the Middle East and Africa, has shaken the EU and fuelled a wave of anti-immigration and eurosceptic sentiment. أكثر... ??????? ??????: Italian vote heralds tougher EU stance on migration || ??????: ahlam1399 || ??????: اسم منتداك
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