Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has written a letter to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. She was “surprised” when she heard that the German government wanted to financially support organizations that care for migrants in Italy. “The letter will be answered,” assured a German government spokesperson.
Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto joined the criticism. Scholz wants, among other things, to continue the additional border security measures with Austria. “Scholz blocks Germany’s eastern borders for migrants, but makes it easier for them to arrive in Italy by financing the NGOs active in the central Mediterranean,” Crosetto wrote on the X platform (formerly Twitter) on Sunday. This strategy is ‘coherent and ingenious’.
Gelder and SOS Mensheid
The Italian government considers it interference in its internal affairs that the German government wants to support aid organizations that care for migrants in their country. 400,000 to 800,000 euros will be paid out “soon” – to a project for land supplies and another for rescue at sea. This is how SOS Humanity is supported.
The two other organizations that the German government finances are the Italian Catholic community of Sant’Egidio and the German NGO Sea Eye. The latter will receive 350,000 euros from the German government for the rescue ship ‘Sea Eye 4’. This is intended to finance two more rescue missions in the Mediterranean, said “Sea Eye” spokeswoman Jutta Wieding, according to Italian media.
Leading CDU representatives are already demanding a public clarification from Scholz that Germany no longer has any absorption capacity. CDU Secretary General Carsten Linnemann said he had to make a speech in the Bundestag as soon as possible. The Chancellor must “send the signal to the whole world: our capacities are exhausted. We will stop illegal migration.”
Source: Krone
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