After Two Years in Power, Giorgia Meloni’s Conservative Government in Italy Has Managed to Block 200,000 Illegal Migrants From Arriving in Its Shores
Having been chosen by POLITICO as ‘the most powerful person in Europe’, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is on a roll.
And all the accolades she has been receiving – such as the ‘Atlantic Council’s Global Citizen Award’ – are not given in vain. She remains one of the few viable Western leaders, as Macron, Scholz, Trudeau, and so many others are floundering.
As a good example of tangible results by Meloni, today it arose that her government has blocked nearly 200,000 migrants from crossing the Mediterranean to Italy since coming to power two years ago.
Sure enough, it’s not perfection, since in 2024, 66,000 migrants still reached Italy by sea. But that compares positively with 157,000 in 2023 and 105,000 in 2022.
Part of the success comes from giving hundreds of millions of euros in aid, trade and investment to Tunisia and Libya.
Both countries have – as per the agreement – endeavored to stop migrant boats from leaving their shores.
The strategy – criticized by the inevitable Globalist NGOs – seems to have drastically reduced the number of illegal migrants who reach Italy.
The Telegraph reported:
“’It is a positive picture and the numbers bear that out’, said Matteo Piantedosi, the interior minister in the Right-wing government led by Giorgia Meloni. He told La Stampa newspaper: ‘In 2024, we reduced the number of irregular arrivals by 60 per cent compared to the year before’.”
Rejected asylum seekers sent back to their home countries increased by 16 per cent to 21,000 repatriations in 2024.
“[Piantedosi] said: ‘These are the result of targeted policies… including close cooperation with the police forces of countries of origin and transit, which in two years have resulted in blocking the departure of 192,000 irregular migrants from Libya and Tunisia who were hoping to reach our shores’.”
Italy and the EU has also promised money to Egypt and Mauritania, for improved border security and tackling the human trafficking of migrants.
“Despite the crackdown, many boats still leave the coast of North Africa and migrants continue to lose their lives when the vessels capsize and sink. […] Around 700 migrants died in Tunisian waters in 2024, while more than 1,300 lost their lives in 2023, according to Tunisian human rights groups.
Italy hopes to further discourage migrants from trying to reach its shores with the construction of two holding centers in Albania. The project, intended to act as a deterrent to economic migrants, was supposed to be up and running several months ago but has been challenged by European and Italian courts.”
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