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The John Batchelor Show

#Italy. Talk of a Mediterranean blockade. Lorenzo Fiori, Ansaldo Foundation.

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

Society & Culture, Arts, News, Books

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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This is CBS, I Am the World, I'm John Bashley. To Italy, to Lorenzo Fiori of the Anselga

0:25.1

Foundation in Siena, to comment on a story that's overwhelming the Mediterranean Basin.

0:30.8

For example, Pope Francis is said to be visiting Marseille to make announcements about welcoming,

0:37.3

welcoming Mediterranean and welcoming migrants from North Africa. But the numbers right now

0:43.6

are overwhelming everyone in all governences of the European Union, so much so that the Guardian

0:49.8

newspaper has a headline saying that migration could be, quote, a dissolving force for the European

0:56.0

Union. This is a quote from a senior diplomat in the European Union. All countries are challenged

1:02.2

by the migration coming from North Africa and from the Middle East, but no country is more

1:08.5

challenged than Italy. Lorenzo, a very good European to you, I see the numbers about Lampedusa,

1:15.1

the small island part of the Sicilian chain. There are 6,000 permanent residents on Lampedusa,

1:21.8

70 kilometers, I believe, from the Tunisian coast. There are now, according to this report,

1:27.7

10,000 migrants on Lampedusa. What is to be done? Your Prime Minister says something must be done

1:35.0

because Italy's overwhelmed with migration. What is the rest of the European Union doing to help

1:42.0

Italy? Good evening to you. Good evening, John. Good evening to all the radio listeners.

1:46.4

Well, let me tell you that the situation in Europe is very complicated. There is no agreement at all

1:51.7

across all the European countries. What they are doing is trying to defend themselves alone

2:00.4

in their own individual position and leaving Italy alone, welcoming so many migrants to the extent

2:08.6

that right now in the center in Lampedusa, which is a little island, 70 kilometers far from

2:15.6

the Tunisian coast, as you said. The population is much less than 6 stars, so we have

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