Gérald Darmanin in action with his EU counterparts

It is far from the standoff of theOcean Viking . In November 2022, the French government did not have harsh enough words against the Italian Prime Minister, accused of having diverted a ship carrying 230 migrants who had to be received in disaster in the port of Toulon. In September 2023, more than 11,000 migrants land on the Italian island of Lampedusain five days, and the call for help from Giorgia Meloni immediately raises a surge of solidarity.

The minister of the Interior, Gerald Darmanin, will travel to Italy on Monday to meet his counterpart Matteo Piantedosi, at the request of Emmanuel Macron who spoke with Giorgia Meloni. The meeting would take place in Rome and not in Lampedusa. This island where migrants converge has become the symbol of what François-Noël Buffet, Les Républicains (LR) president of the Law Commission in the Senate, calls “the failure of European immigration policy”. These migrants are therefore Ivorian, Egyptian, Guinean, Tunisian. This…