REASON OF MIGRATION POLICIES

If a rational being of advanced evolution (evidently a Martian), observing the events of this “opaque atom of evil”, had recently followed the news on the movements of people in the Mediterranean and the political and legal reactions to them, he would certainly have was shocked to say the least. In fact, it is difficult to find a succession of events so dramatically irrational — before, and beyond that, illicit — such as those which have followed one another since the adoption, on 13 May 2015, of the European Agenda for Migration. In it, somewhat hidden by a jumble of routine declarations of pain for the many victims and bureaucratic humanitarian concerns for the fate of future departing subjects — under the title Collaborating with third countries to address the issue of migration upstream — there is the central measure of flow management by the European Union and its member states: the so-called externalization of borders.

subsequently developed by the European Commission in the Communication on the creation of a new partnership framework with third countries under the European Agenda on Migration of 7 June 2016 ; supported by the EU/OAU Summit , held in Valletta in November 2015. Triumphantly flaunted at the Paris Summit on Migration , the externalization of borders is now the cornerstone of migration policies.

proposals from Italy, such as the bombing of migrant boats or the closure of ports to boats full of people rescued from shipwrecks.