Court of Auditors, the cost to the State of each asylum seeker is 203 euros per day. (other than that 35)
Of Maurizio Blondet
For the reception of immigrants on Italian territory, In the 2016, the National Fund for asylum policies and services, managed by Ministry of the Interior, without including the so-called costs. “indirect”, recorded financial commitments for totals 1,7 billions of euros.
Even the European Union, for the same year, contributed funding for 46,8 million euros which however represent only the 2,7 percent compared to the burden placed on the state budget and on the shoulders of Italian citizens.
To this must be added the cost for the country of the failed relocation of migrants in other European states, on the date of 15 October 2017, amounts to no less than 762,5 millions.
The technical accounting document analyzed, specifically for the three-year period 2013/2016, the first reception, i.e. the services provided to foreigners from disembarkation to accommodation in the CAS and subsequently in the Cara. High costs emerged in the face of poor services, absence of adequate fiscal controls, long times for identification and asylum applications, lacking territorial governance by the Interior Ministry in the collection centers.
In short, according to court of accounts the reception system would be expensive, ineffective and summary. The system for managing the reception of immigrants has come under the scrutiny of the Court of Auditors, in a compendium of 150 pages, all the obvious critical issues of the phenomenon. Read More