Actuality | CLEAN HANDS

The strange game of the Coast Guard
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Now, due to Salvini's fault, the toy has broken, but them, evidently, they have no intention of giving up
Of Gian Micalessin
«Once is a coincidence, twice a coincidence, three times it is an action of the enemy". Matteo Salvini and the infrastructure minister Matteo Toninelli would do well to re-read Ian Fleming.
The actions of the Diciotti ship, the Coast Guard patrol vessel, for the third time at the center of a clash with the Government in less than two and a half months, in fact, they seem more like studied moves than simple coincidences. The chronicle of the silent dispute between the Coast Guard, on the one hand, and the Ministry of Infrastructure, on which in theory it depends, and the Interior Ministry on the other begins towards 10 of June. While Salvini recommends the end of the rescue operations in front of Libya and the Aquarius ship of SOS Mediterranee is kept away from Italian ports, the patrol vessel Diciotti carries out seven interventions near the coast of Tripoli, charging 937 migrants. Migrants that Salvini and Toninelli are forced to disembark in Catania. But Diciotti's incursions don't end there.
Il 9 July the patrol vessel approaches the tug Vos Thalassa and loads 67 migrants who, according to a version that has never been clarified – they threatened the on-board staff who were guilty of wanting to disembark them in Libya instead of Italy. The version does not convince Matteo Salvini who makes it clear that he considers it a pretext to justify the intervention of the Coast Guard unit. But the fatal move capable of bringing the clash with the Coast Guard into the open comes on Wednesday. That day the patrolman Diciotti intervenes to the rescue of a boat with 177 migrants just as the government is pressuring Malta to welcome them into one of its ports. An absolutely unmotivated intervention given that the boat is not in immediate danger and it is carried out, as Matteo Salvini notes, without the knowledge of the Interior Ministry. «Yesterday the Maltese had taken responsibility for an intervention to help a boat with 170 immigrants on board explains the Minister of the Interior – and a ship of the Italian Port Authority, without the Interior Ministry being informed of it, took the immigrants on board while they were still in Maltese waters, to head towards Italy". Read More

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Actuality | WORLD CONFLICT

Macron plays Napoleon
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Of Gian Micalessin
He calls it the authority of democracy. Will be, but that of Emmanuel Macron, took up the chair at the European Parliament to explain to us how diversity of ideas is, for Europe, a danger comparable to a civil war, it does not seem like a desirable revisitation of freedom of thought.
You don't need to dig between the lines to understand how, in Macron-thought, the only good idea of ​​democracy is the French one. Or rather that of a France under his leadership. O, better yet, that of a Europe with him as the new Napoleon. Let us not deceive ourselves. It's not the umpteenth "macronade". It is not a boast similar to a tirade, already denied by the White House, with which he took credit for convincing Trump to stay in Syria. This time we are faced with a project. The refoundation of Europe and the reduction of national sovereignty, the two concepts that Macron has been arguing about since September, have as their starting point the creation of transnational lists for the European elections. The model is that of «En Marche!», the formation with which Macron made a clean sweep of socialists and the old Gaullist right at home. Read More

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