The European Union does not believe that it is time to show its fractures, which there are. “We have seen that there is no fatigue”. If that is true, it only seems applicable to support for Ukraine, beyond some doubts and friction.. But other issues such as migration do represent a real headache for the 27, as was demonstrated this Friday at the informal summit of the European Council in Granada.. Maybe not fatigue, but migraines. The issue, incorporated by Italy, ended up being key in the meeting in addition to the issue of the expansion of the bloc, which is also taken for granted for the medium term.

Poland and Hungary do not want to accept the agreement reached at the level of ministers and ambassadors, and the Magyar Prime Minister, Viktor Orbán, was especially harsh when comparing the situation to a rape. “If they rape you, in legal terms, and force you to accept something you don't want, how can there be an agreement? It's impossible,” he said.. For his Polish counterpart, Mateusz Morawiecki, he assured that his country rejects the migration pact to face “the dictates of Brussels.”

Under these premises of the most 'problematic' partners in the search for consensus, the summit ended up distorted and in fact there was a certain delay in ending the meeting, although the leaders ended up assuming that they will have to continue addressing it in the already formal European Council. which will take place in three weeks in Brussels. In the Granada Declaration, which includes the conclusions, not a single paragraph was included on the subject.. Prime ministers such as Emmanuel Macron, Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Petteri Orpo left the Granada Congress Palace first without giving rise to any clear conclusion.

And so what was going to be a secondary point became the main topic of a summit that did not want to reach any conclusion but was prepared to shed some light on one of the great taboos of the Union.. The President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, and the High Representative, Josep Borrell, agreed on the need to have “a long-term strategy” that combines “solidarity with security at the external borders”. These plans, they said, also have to take into account the most fractious countries in the matter.

Italy, on the other hand, had a different tone. In fact, both Giorgia Meloni and the German Chancellor Olaf Scholz celebrated the agreement reached a few days ago and smoothed out the rough spots that were seen for some moments between both countries.. Both also “confirmed the optimal level of cooperation” between Berlin and Rome and announced that they will hold an intergovernmental summit in November, even though they disagree on their vision of the current European Union.

“It will not be the last time we talk about migration,” acknowledged the president of the European Council, Charles Michel, who spoke of “effectiveness” when managing arrivals through the land or sea border, and at the same time defended the agreements with third countries to “protect those borders” without forgetting “the solidarity factor”. Nobody leaves that line and in the end what is done with the issue is to take a step forward, although the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, is confident that the final agreement “is close”, with an approach ” better structured and prepared for the long term”, which includes the countries of origin and transit, with the corresponding investment through the Global Gateway. And he issued a warning: “We are the ones who decide who enters the EU” and that goes hand in hand with “ending the mafia discourse.”

Pedro Sánchez began with thanks and describing the summits as “a true success”. Already getting into the matter, the acting President of the Government also celebrated that Granada is witnessing statements about “what Europe we are going to have in the future”. The Spanish presidency accepts “the challenge” regarding the pending issues and on the migration issue, it asks “to define what responsibility and solidarity means to face a European issue such as migration.”

Expansion yes, but how

The immigration issue left the expansion in the background despite the fact that it was initially the axis on which the meeting was going to pivot.. Everyone already assumes that the EU will expand towards the East, but the question is how this great change is addressed.. “All this makes it clear that we not only have to address the issues of the accession processes of the candidate countries and to a large extent the prerequisites for accession and when they are guaranteed in each case. We also have to prepare the European Union itself for the future. This applies especially to decision-making structures,” summarized German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.. Orbán himself, for his part, warned regarding Ukraine that the EU cannot admit “a country that is at war.”

“Climate transformation, the pandemic and war” are the three key events for Europe to transform, said Michel. The leaders also accept the challenge that the Union has to reform itself first, in aspects such as decision-making or the distribution of funds, and then accept new members.. The 27 believe that they have to strengthen the economic base of the EU, as well as its security and defense, with greater investments. On the other hand, energy must stop being a point of dependence and, finally, the EU needs to strengthen ties with its partners in other regions of the world.. “We believe in a multipolar world,” concluded Michel.

Von der Leyen, for her part, shared an argument: “This has been about making a stronger, safer and more independent EU,” she asserted, and she believes that they are “achieving” it, especially since the start of the war in Ukraine. , as has been seen, he said, especially with the reduction of energy ties with Russia. Of course, not all the work is done, he warned, before adding that accession to the EU “is not automatic” but is based on “merits.”. The block also “has to do its own homework to be prepared.”

This has been about making an EU stronger, safer and more independent

Metsola on the subject pointed out that enlargement needs an EU prepared for it, following Von der Leyen's argument. “We have to be prepared for when the candidate countries are,” he stated, while avoiding talking about a calendar.. The European Parliament, however, calls for progress in the negotiations. Borrell added that “a tailored approach” is necessary for each country because “not everyone has the same needs.”. The process, he stressed, has to be “open and clear” so as not to create false expectations.

In this sense, there have been proposals of all colors, since precisely the meeting has been taken as a brain storming given its informal nature.. Slovenia, for example, has proposed that new members enter the EU in stages and that each stage step be approved with a qualified majority.. For some experts consulted for 20 minutes, this “would generate many imbalances right from the start”, so it does not seem like a viable solution to a process that is long and demanding.. Spain, for its part, maintains like other partners that the main thing is that the candidates “comply with the reforms and what is stated in the Treaties.”

The saying goes that a bird in the hand is better than two in the bush and European leaders leave the Granada summits with many photos and many ideas around them, but without yet being able to land on any concrete ones.. Yes, the event has served to outline and above all 'sell' what Europe intends to build to compete on the global stage with Russia and China.. The question is how, and not all member states agree on it.. Time will tell.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize to Narges Mohammadi “for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all”. She is an Iranian activist who works as vice president of the Center for Human Rights Defenders, directed by another Nobel Peace Prize winner, Shirin Ebadi.

“This brave woman deserves this award more than me,” Ebadi said of Mohammadi when the former won the Felix Ermacora human rights award.. But there has been no shortage of awards.

In 2009, Mohammadi was awarded the Alexander Langer; in 2011, the Per Anger, human rights award from the Swedish Government; in 2016, the Weimar Human Rights Award; and in 2018, the Andrei Sakharov Prize from the American Physical Society. This woman, who has spent half her life in prison for fighting for the dignity of women in Iran, now receives the Nobel Peace Prize.

From journalist to activist

Narges Mohammadi was born in Zanjan (Iran) on April 21, 1972. Already during her life as a student at the Imam Khomeini International University she began writing articles on women's rights.. He participated in the meetings of the “Illuminating Student Group ” and after one of them he suffered his first arrest; the first of many. He spent a year in prison. He also did climbing, but due to his political activity, the implacable Iranian regime prohibited him from practicing it.

“This brave woman deserves this award more than me,” said Ebadi (Nobel 2003) of Mohammadi

Already graduated in physics, she became an engineer. But he kept writing. He worked as a journalist in several reformist newspapers.. The fruit of that work was his book of political essays 'The reforms, the Strategy and the Tactics'.

In 1999, he married Taghi Rahmani, a colleague in Iran's reform struggle.. They have twin children, Ali and Kiana.

In and out of jail

Mohammadi has been in and out of prison unjustly for years. He has been working at the Center for Human Rights Defenders of Iran for twenty years, which he joined in 2003.. It was that year when the president of this organization, Shirin Ebadi, won the Nobel Peace Prize.

In 2010, she was summoned before the Islamic Revolutionary Court for belonging to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).. Mohammadi was released on bail and arrested days later. Imprisoned, her health suffered and she developed an illness similar to epilepsy.. After a month, she was discharged and allowed to be treated at a hospital.

The sentence was another sad example of the Iranian authorities' attempts to silence brave human rights defenders.”

In July 2011, she was tried again and found guilty of “acting against national security, membership of the DRC and propaganda against the regime”. Mohammadi was sentenced to 11 years in prison. The sentence was confirmed a year later, but reduced to six years. The British Foreign Office called it “another sad example of the Iranian authorities' attempts to silence brave human rights defenders.”

International petition for freedom

His case did not go unnoticed. Amnesty International designated her a prisoner of conscience and called for her immediate release.. “What have you done during all these years to deserve such sentences? Ask for justice, demand truth, accompany the families of victims of police violence, cry out against the death penalty. In short, defend human rights,” this NGO still repeats today.

Reporters Without Borders issued an appeal on Mohammadi's behalf on the ninth anniversary of the death of photographer Zahra Kazemi in Evin prison, stating that Mohammadi was a prisoner whose life was “in special danger”.

What have you done… ? Ask for justice, demand truth, accompany the families of victims of police violence, cry out against the death penalty. In short, defend human rights”

In July 2012, an international group of lawmakers called for his release.. On the last day of that month of July, Mohammadi was released. That same year, his partner moved to France after serving a fourteen-year prison sentence.

Mohammadi continued in Iran fighting for human rights. In March 2014 he met with the then High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Catherine Ashton.

“These people have been sentenced to death after being held in solitary confinement and subjected to horrible psychological and mental torture.”

She was arrested again in May 2015.. The Revolutionary Court sentenced Mohammadi to ten years in prison on the charge of “founding an illegal group” (they were referring to the step-by-step campaign to stop the death penalty), five years for “assembly and collusion against national security ” and one year for “propaganda against the system” for his interviews with international media and his meeting with Ashton.

More than 10 years in prison and 154 lashes

In January 2019, Mohammadi went on a hunger strike alongside detained British-Iranian national Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, in Evin Prison, Tehran, to protest the denial of access to medical care.. On October 8, 2020, she was released, but remained sentenced to 10 years and eight months in prison and 154 lashes.

“Defendants are forced to make false and lying confessions that are used as key evidence to hand down convictions.”

On February 27, 2021, she published a video on social media in which she described the sexual abuse and mistreatment to which she and other women were subjected in prison.. He referred to all of this in more detail in the Annual Human Rights Report on the Death Penalty in Iran that he wrote in March of that year.

“These people have been sentenced to death after being held in solitary confinement and subjected to horrible psychological and mental torture, so I do not consider the judicial process to be fair or equitable; I see that the accused are kept in solitary confinement and They are forced to make false and lying confessions that are used as key evidence to hand down these sentences,” Mohammadi's text described.

A five-minute trial without a lawyer

She was sentenced again in May 2021. On this occasion, two and a half years in prison, 80 lashes and two different fines for charges such as “spreading propaganda against the system”. “The trial was unfair, it lasted five minutes and Narges did not have access to a lawyer,” says Amnesty International.

Her work as a notary of the brutality of the Iranian regime continued with a report she did for the BBC in December 2022.. She recounted the protests sparked by the death in custody of Mahsa Amini and the subsequent sexual and physical abuse suffered by the detained women.

In January this year, Mohammadi submitted a report from prison detailing the situation of women in Evin prison, including a list of 58 prisoners and the interrogation process and torture to which they have been subjected.

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been accused of “covering up witness tampering” and “participating in a criminal association to commit the crime of procedural fraud,” according to what the newspaper Le Monde reported this Friday.

Sarkozy testified this Tuesday before an investigating judge in Paris who is investigating whether he pressured a shady Franco-Lebanese businessman, who after accusing him of receiving money for his 2007 Elysée campaign from Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, suddenly retracted his statement.

The Paris Judicial Court is trying to determine whether Sarkozy intervened directly or indirectly to get Ziad Takieddine to exonerate him of having financed himself with funds from the Gaddafi regime.

The conservative politician, who was in the Elysée from 2007 to 2012, will sit in the dock at the beginning of 2025 for allegedly receiving these illicit funds.

The question now is that Sarkozy will also have to face these two new accusations for allegedly having used his power of influence to try to avoid the accusations of Takkiedine, who for years claimed that the Libyan leader had paid Sarkozy to get to the head of state.

At that time, he had explained having given the then Minister of the Interior and his right-hand man, Claude Guéant (who would later occupy the Interior Department), three suitcases with millions of euros that he had received from Gaddafi's entourage.

The fact is that, first in an interview with two media outlets at the end of 2020 and then in a letter to the investigating magistrates, the Franco-Lebanese arms dealer gave a complete and unexplained turn to his statements.

The 2023 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Iranian activist Narges Mohamadi. The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded her the prestigious award for her “fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and justice for all.”

The Iranian activist thus joins a list of illustrious names awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, such as Mother Teresa of Calcutta, Nelson Mandela or Martin Luther King. A recognition that Alfred Nobel bequeathed in his will and that is granted “to the person who has done the best work or the greatest number of contributions to fraternity between countries, the suppression or reduction of armies, as well as the participation and promotion of peace and human rights congresses”; and that in addition to the award comes with a financial prize.

How much money does a Nobel Prize winner earn?

The Nobel Peace Prize, like the rest of these awards, is awarded by the Norwegian Nobel Committee and the Nobel Foundation to which Alfred Nobel bequeathed his entire fortune upon his death, about 31 million Swedish crowns (currently about 1,794 million of Swedish crowns), in 1896, for its granting as a reward in the prizes that bear his name, as provided by the Swedish inventor in his will. In the first edition of the Nobel Prizes, each winner was awarded an amount of just over 150,000 Swedish crowns at the time.

Currently, the Nobel Foundation has set an amount of 11 million Swedish crowns for each of the Nobel Prize categories for the 2023 prizes, a figure close to 950,000 euros at the exchange rate.

The High Court of England and Wales has concluded that the king emeritus, Juan Carlos I, cannot be tried in the United Kingdom for the lawsuit for alleged harassment that Corinna Larsen filed to claim 126 million pounds (about 146 million euros) in compensation. of damages.

“My main conclusion is that the High Court of England and Wales lacks jurisdiction to hear this claim. This is because it has not been brought against the defendant in their country of domicile, as is their default right; and the plaintiff has not convinced me that she has a strong and defensible argument that her claim falls within an exception to that predetermined rule,” Judge Collins Rice said.

In the ruling, the judge has indicated that she is also not convinced that the defendant has submitted, or should be deemed to have submitted, to the jurisdiction of the High Court by his own conduct of this litigation thus far.

The decision was announced this Friday after last July the court heard the arguments of the defense of Juan Carlos I, in charge of the British firm Velitor Law.

Corinna's lawyers explained shortly after the ruling was announced that their client is “disappointed” and willing to study the relevant resources.

The legal team of the emeritus king requested in July that Larsen's lawsuit be dismissed, considering that the courts of the United Kingdom were not competent to hear this lawsuit.. The defense was based on Article 4 of the EU regulation on jurisdiction, which states that people domiciled in a Member State, regardless of their nationality, must be sued before the courts of that country.

The lawyers stated in their brief that the community regulation operated in this specific case because it began before the end of the transition period for Brexit, until December 31, 2020.

Thus, they insisted that the Spanish courts were competent to deal with Larsen's claim.. To this, they added that “the key question” was whether, in relation to the alleged acts of harassment, the United Kingdom was the place where the alleged 'harmful event' or 'direct harm' occurred, something that, as they pointed out, the Larsen's lawyers had not shown.

Corinna's “lack of credibility”

Another of the arguments put forward by the defense was “the obvious lack of credibility of the plaintiff.”. In this regard, they highlighted that Larsen had requested permission to make a new modification to his original complaint.. “Like its predecessors, it is incoherent, internally contradictory and manifestly bad in legal terms,” said the defense of the emeritus king.

At this point, he denied the existence of “a pattern of conduct” of harassment attributable to the former monarch, reproaching Larsen for limiting himself to recounting “several incidents” that, in the defense's opinion, “are highly different in terms of their nature.” , take place sporadically over several years and were carried out by different people (not always the defendant) against various objectives (not always the defendant).

Furthermore, he stressed that Larsen's claims—which Juan Carlos I “emphatically denies”—are not only “false” but also “inconsistent with public statements made by her” before the litigation.

In fact, he recalled that, after the abdication of Juan Carlos I, on June 14, 2014, Larsen “issued a statement of affection” where he described him as “a man of profound humanity and courage, a loyal and always attentive friend.” , as well as a “giant of History”.

On the other hand, the defense expressed its discomfort at the fact that “the accusations involve an alleged abuse of power inconsistent with the defendant's important role in Spain's Transition towards a successful parliamentary democracy, and with his long period of service as sovereign “.

The immunity of Don Juan Carlos

The sources consulted indicated that the objective of that four-day hearing was to address the preliminary issues that remained pending until the scope of the former monarch's immunity was resolved.

It was on December 6 when the Court of Appeal of England and Wales established that Don Juan Carlos enjoys immunity with respect to actions prior to his abdication as King of Spain, in 2014.

This court decision means that Larsen's lawsuit, which places the time frame of the alleged harassment between 2012 and 2020, could only be pursued before the British courts for what happened after 2014.

The businesswoman reported in her lawsuit that Juan Carlos I had harassed her after she ended the relationship they had had.. First to try to get her back and then as revenge to harm her business, according to Larsen.

He demanded compensation from the king emeritus for the costs of his mental health medical treatment, for the “installation of personal security measures and daily protection services” and for the hiring of “former diplomats and former government officials” to intervene with in order to “end the harassment” he says he has received.

At least one child has died and another 16 people have been injured this Friday in a new attack carried out by the Russian Army against the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, according to the Ukrainian authorities.

“Kharkov. “A new targeted attack by Russia against civilians,” lamented the Ukrainian Interior Minister, Igor Klimenko, who detailed that “the body of a ten-year-old child has been found among the rubble.”

Thus, he stated in a message on his Telegram account that “two apartment buildings have suffered damage and a three-story residential building has been destroyed,” before adding that firefighters have extinguished the fire that broke out in the area after the attack. .

For his part, the mayor of Kharkiv, Igor Terejov, has confirmed the death of the child and has conveyed his condolences to his relatives.. “The enemy's blows fall exclusively on civil infrastructure in Kharkiv,” he stressed in a message on Telegram.

The attack comes a day after the death of more than 50 people in a Russian bombing of the town of Groza, located in Kharkiv, which hit a cafe and a grocery store, as noted by Ukrainian authorities.

The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, spoke afterward of “a brutal crime”, while Klimenko stressed that “it is a tragedy for Ukraine”. The Kharkiv Prosecutor's Office highlighted that the attack was the one that caused the most deaths in the region since the beginning of the invasion, unleashed on February 24, 2022.

The Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orbán, has stated that the migration pact that the European Union is currently negotiating involves “violating” with laws and policies countries that, like Hungary and Poland, do not agree.

“If they rape you, in legal terms, and force you to accept something you don't want, how can there be an agreement? It's impossible,” declared the president upon his arrival at the informal Council of Granada, where he regretted that Budapest and Warsaw have been set aside.

Thus, the Hungarian Prime Minister has made it clear that there will be no concessions, which he considers “impossible” in political terms today: “Not only today, but also on a general level, for the next few years.”

Orbán reacts like this after the Interior Ministers last week established the position of the 27 to negotiate the migration crisis management mechanism, a key file in the migration and asylum reform. The mandate went ahead with the support of a qualified majority of countries and despite the vote against Hungary and Poland, which could not stop the agreement.

Questions the expansion

On the other hand, he has alluded to the open debate on enlargement to point out that, before considering the entry of new members into the community bloc, it is necessary to examine the “strategic consequences” that it would entail.. “We have not done it,” he warned.

In the case of Ukraine, which even aspires to start accession talks this year, he stressed that “it is a country at war” and that the EU “has never” accepted a member in these circumstances, and that it is not even known ” “where are the effective borders” today.

He has also pointed out that we must examine the impact from a budgetary point of view, the impact that it would have on aspects ranging from agricultural aid to cohesion funds, including basic security issues.. “Are the French peasants prepared?” he added.

Regarding the possibility of imposing sanctions on Azerbaijan, raised by the European Parliament, the prime minister recalled that it is “a key country”, without which there would be no “energy independence”. “If we want to reduce dependence on Russian energy, we need Azerbaijan,” he said.

The removal of Kevin McCarthy as speaker of the United States House of Representatives has left the Republican Party with the urgency of solving the chaos generated in its own ranks in the midst of the race to find a successor.

So far only two people, both from the most conservative wing, have nominated: the president of the Judiciary Committee of that chamber, Jim Jordan, and the “number two” of the party there, Steve Scalise, who is launching that challenge while it is being treated for blood cancer.

Conservative legislator Max Miller criticized this Thursday on CNN that the motion against McCarthy presented on Monday by the radical Matt Gaetz and approved on Tuesday could cause his party to lose the leadership of the House. “I have no hope” that the Republicans will maintain said leadership, said Miller, who assured that former President Donald Trump himself (2017-2021), of whom Gaetz is one of his main acolytes, is concerned about the situation created.

And it is an unprecedented crisis in American history because until now no speaker, as the leader of the Lower House is known in English, had been overthrown.

This Thursday, Jim Jordan stressed on the Fox News channel that he has taken the step of running for election convinced that someone is needed who can “unite the team” and that he is the right person to repair the rift between radicals and moderates and then fulfill the promises made to the Americans.

In that eventual mandate he also promised to protect the moderates and not put them in difficult situations, unlike McCarthy, forced to make concessions in the face of the pressures that the most radical demanded of him.

Gaetz's motion that ended McCarthy's leadership was approved by 216 votes in favor and 210 against.. Eight Republican legislators joined the Democratic caucus, also responsible for the fact that last January it took McCarthy 15 attempts to achieve leadership.

The new vote: October 11

The new vote is scheduled to begin on October 11. That vote could be postponed if at the meeting held by the Republicans the day before no candidate manages to unite their ranks.

According to some media, Trump would be considering going to the Capitol next week to meet precisely with members of his party, but he has ruled out having been involved in Gaetz's motion and also maintains that he himself is not interested in the Lower House, but in the presidency of the country.

The uncertainty created in turn increases the possibility that in mid-November, when the extension of the Administration's financing granted last Saturday expires, there could be a government shutdown, since the Lower House cannot approve new laws with leadership interim.

For fellow conservative Dusty Johnson, his party must address the issue at its roots: “If we don't change the basis of the problems, we are going to have the same car driven by a different clown,” he noted on CNN.

The White House has repeatedly stressed that it will not interfere in this regard, but both the president, Joe Biden, and the presidential spokesperson, Karine Jean-Pierre, have reiterated throughout the week that the “poisoned atmosphere” must be changed. ” from Washington to be able to work together and advance the country's priorities.

For former first lady and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, McCarthy had lost his authority and that is the reason why the Democrats did not save him: “He could not be trusted,” he also noted on CNN.

The prime ministers of Italy, Giorgia Meloni, and the United Kingdom, Rishi Sunak, have led a meeting organized by surprise on the margins of the European Political Community (EPC) summit and focused on migration, with the aim of forging new alliances to combat irregular flows involving transit and destination countries.

“We cannot allow criminal gangs to decide who reaches the shores of Europe,” proclaimed the British Prime Minister before even starting the CPE summit in Granada, in a statement in which he justified an appointment to which they attended by the president of France, Emmanuel Macron, the head of the European Commission, Ursula Von der Leyen, and the prime ministers of the Netherlands, Mark Rutte, and of Albania, Edi Rama.

The British Prime Minister has alleged that the current situation is “immoral and unsustainable” and has indicated that the fight against “illegal migration”, just as it may be the response to the Russian “threat”, must be done with “unity”, since these are issues that “transcend national borders and require European-wide solutions.”

For his part, Meloni stated, upon his arrival at the Granada Conference Center, that the Italian proposal involves “stopping illegal flows”, since he considers that “it is the only way for everyone to agree in the EU.” .

Thus, although she confirmed that Italy has supported the latest proposal up for debate in the EU – because it is “clearly better” than the previous ones – the Italian leader has insisted that the debate cannot revolve around “redistributing” migrants. among the Twenty-seven.

A “relevant” forum for debate

In a press conference at the end of the day, Macron justified the holding of this meeting, stressing that the CPE is a “relevant” forum to carry it out, despite the fact that it was not on the official agenda.

The French president believes that there is room for new “synergies” between countries that live in very different contexts. “Cooperation allows us to reduce clandestine immigration,” stressed Macron, who is in favor of opening the door to new alliances that are not necessarily bilateral.

He does not even rule out expanding the format and assumes that the topic will come up at future summits, also taking into account that the next one will be organized by the United Kingdom, “in principle, in the spring” of next year..

“Stop the boats”

A battery of commitments emerged from the meeting, including cooperating to stop irregular immigration at the external borders, measures to “stop all boats involved in people trafficking”, a message the latter especially recurring in Sunak's mouth. and Meloni.

They also believe it is necessary to “update the legal framework”, for example, by equating the crimes attributable to these networks, and favor support programs to tackle the causes underlying migration, for example, through preparation for climate disasters, development and education. or job creation, European sources inform Europa Press.

Likewise, they want to open new “opportunities for humanitarian admission and relocation” to those who really have the right to asylum, as well as “legal” channels through which these people can travel to other countries without putting their lives at risk.

For those who do not have this right, it is necessary to “strengthen cooperation on return and readmission”, according to this list of commitments, which does not refer to specific countries or circumstances.