Italy to deport 500,000 'migrants'

[Robbie Key]

Italy's populists promise to kick out half a million migrants as they edge towards forming new government
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18 MAY 2018 • 4:26PM

Italy’s populist parties, which are expected to form a new government within days, have pledged to deport up to half a million migrants.

An aggressive stepping-up of repatriations was a long-held promise of the hard-Right League, which is poised to form a coalition government with the anti-establishment Five Star Movement.

The parties presented their policy programme on Friday, in what was widely seen as the biggest challenge to the authority and cohesion of the EU since Brexit.

The 58-page manifesto called for a review of governance and spending rules imposed by Brussels.

It called for the recruitment of more police, the building of new prisons and the clearing of illegal gypsy settlements in Italian towns and cities.

“Today there are around 500,000 irregular migrants in Italy,” the document said, calling for a much swifter rate of expulsions and repatriation.

Migrants targeted for expulsion would be rounded up and held in “temporary stay facilities”, with at least one to be established in each of Italy’s 20 regions.

Around 600,000 migrants and refugees have reached Italy from Libya in the past four years, with some repatriated already and others granted asylum and resettled elsewhere within the EU.

The parties want a review of the Dublin Regulation, which dictates that migrants and refugees apply for asylum in the first EU country they reach, which Italy and Greece have long argued is unfair as they are the first port of call because of their location on the shores of the Mediterranean.

Immigration was a key theme in the March 4 general election, which ended in an inconclusive result.

Five Star emerged as the most popular single party but The League, in coalition with other centre-Right parties, won the most votes of any bloc.

The two parties promised a massive spending spree that will bring them into conflict with the EU’s strict budgetary rules.

They honoured election promises by calling for a flat tax of 15-20 per cent, a universal basic income of 780 euros a month for Italy’s jobless and poor, and the lowering of the pensionable age.

It has been estimated that together the pledges could cost the country, which has the highest level of debt in the Eurozone after Greece, up to 120 billion euros a year.

The policy document, officially called “the contract for a government of change”, stepped back from any suggestion of Italy ditching the euro as its currency, an idea which both parties had flirted with.

The partners also dropped a demand, contained in a leaked earlier draft, to request a €250 billion debt write-off from the European Central Bank.

Both parties asked their supporters to vote on whether to sign off on the policy proposals.

That process should be completed by Sunday.

A big hurdle remains. Luigi Di Maio, the leader of Five Star, and Matteo Salvini, who heads The League, must settle on who they want to become prime minister. They are expected to present the candidate’s name to Sergio Mattarella, the president, during a meeting on Monday in Rome.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...migrants-edge/

[Dawn Cannon]

Originally Posted by Robbie Key

The partners also dropped a demand, contained in a leaked earlier draft, to request a €250 billion debt write-off from the European Central Bank.

As the financially and morally bankrupt EU regime "prints" all the billions it needs anyway, can't see a problem in writing off Italy's imaginary ZOGdebt as well.



ECB to keep printing BILLIONS of Euros to prop up Eurozone till 2019


The European Central Bank (ECB) has already pledged to continue injecting billions of euros into the economy every month until the end of this year.

But monetary policymakers are likely to continue with the bond-buying programme, or so-called Quantitative Easing (QE) for another two years, according to Societe Generale.

https://www.express.co.uk/finance/ci...on-2019-SocGen

[Joe from OH]

Bankrupt the country/currency to facilitate mud population migration.

And then what? It's going to get REAL ugly once the financial shenanigans stop working. And they will.

[Johan]

Originally Posted by Dawn Cannon

can't see a problem in writing off Italy's imaginary ZOGdebt as well.

If they do so, the countries that are still part of that EU / Euro monster can pay the costs.

So that becomes a bottomless pit, worse than the Greek case, ZOG will squeeze out the last shekel to keep their "dream" alive.