05-03-2018, 13:24
Italy is the third biggest economy in the EU.
Immigration is a huge issue. Because Italy is where it is, it is the destination of choice from Libya. Because Italy has a functioning navy, it picks up sinking migrant boats all over the Med' and brings them back to Italian ports. The EU insists the migrants, who largely don't want to end up in Italy, register there. The migrants then head across open borders into other European countries and under EU rules, when they are picked up in perhaps France, they are returned, not to Libya, but to their point of first entry - Italy. With problems of mounting debt and youth unemployment Italy doesn't need more problems.
The EU isn't much help, they want Italy to pay for and police their migrant issue, and when if/we leave the EU they'll want Italy to pay even more to make up the deficit we become! Love Italy, like Italians, short, dark southerners, and those fashionable and superior northerners in their designer suits ........... even like their football ............ but the EU could well push them towards Fascism.
Immigration is a huge issue. Because Italy is where it is, it is the destination of choice from Libya. Because Italy has a functioning navy, it picks up sinking migrant boats all over the Med' and brings them back to Italian ports. The EU insists the migrants, who largely don't want to end up in Italy, register there. The migrants then head across open borders into other European countries and under EU rules, when they are picked up in perhaps France, they are returned, not to Libya, but to their point of first entry - Italy. With problems of mounting debt and youth unemployment Italy doesn't need more problems.
The EU isn't much help, they want Italy to pay for and police their migrant issue, and when if/we leave the EU they'll want Italy to pay even more to make up the deficit we become! Love Italy, like Italians, short, dark southerners, and those fashionable and superior northerners in their designer suits ........... even like their football ............ but the EU could well push them towards Fascism.