Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and her Danish counterpart Mette Frederiksen have warned against “uncontrolled migration” to Europe in a joint statement, again calling for so-called return centres outside the EU to send rejected asylum seekers back to their home countries.<\/p>\n
“We don’t accept uncontrolled immigration to Europe, and we have spearheaded a strict immigration policy both in our home countries and in Europe,” read the statement, which Frederiksen posted on Instagram on Monday.<\/p>\n
“None can deny that illegal immigration has a negative impact on our societies: growing crime rates, increasing pressure on public services and erosion of public trust. It is particularly serious when illegal migrants – who have no right to remain in our countries – commit violent crimes, engage in drug trafficking, or are responsible for sexual violence.”<\/p>\n
The two leaders – the only two female heads of government in the European Union – insisted that “return hubs in third [non-EU] countries and other innovative solutions outside Europe must be implemented.”<\/p>\n
Meloni and Frederiksen come from different ends of the political spectrum. The former leads the far-right Brothers of Italy party, while Frederiksen is a Social Democrat.<\/p>\n
“We come from very different political stances,” the statement acknowledged. “We certainly do not agree on everything.”<\/p>\n
“But we are untied in our desire to protect Europe,” it added.<\/p>\n
Deportation centres outside the EU, otherwise known as return hubs, have been debated for years and remain highly controversial within the bloc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and her Danish counterpart Mette Frederiksen have warned against “uncontrolled migration” to Europe…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[54607,39,4,40,308,37274,38995,57013,7443,103,57012],"class_list":["post-113011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-eu","tag-danish-prime-minister","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-european-union","tag-giorgia-meloni","tag-illegal-immigration","tag-immigration-policy","tag-immigration-to-europe","tag-italian-prime-minister","tag-mette-frederiksen","tag-uncontrolled-immigration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}