“It is an important signal.” With this phrase Giorgia Meloni commented on X the letter that Italy and Denmark promoted at the European Union summits on the Ceuta crisis, signed in full by 22 heads of state and government.
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For the premier, it is not just a response to the ongoing emergency, but the confirmation of a political path claimed for years: “The line that Italy has supported for a long time is now shared by an increasing number of European nations.”
The crisis
The context in which the claim arrives is one of the most serious migration crises in recent years: eighteen deaths in the attempt to reach the Spanish enclave by swimming, a bus and seven vehicles set on fire during clashes with law enforcement, tens of thousands of crossings in a few weeks.
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Suspension of Schengen
Meloni chose to act on two parallel levels. On the first, the bilateral one with Madrid, the Italian government ordered the temporary suspension of the Schengen free movement with Spain, a decision that caused the summoning of the Italian ambassador by the Spanish Foreign Ministry in protest.
The letter
On the second level, the multilateral one, the premier promoted together with her Danish counterpart Mette Frederiksen the diplomatic initiative that brings her line on repatriations and combating traffickers inside a collective letter signed by 22 countries — including Germany, the Netherlands, Austria, Belgium, Greece, Poland, Sweden, and Finland — but not by Spain and France.
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