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Italy to seize NGO rescue ships as migrant row deepens
BBC News ^ | 6/21/2018 | BBC

Posted on 06/21/2018 9:30:01 PM PDT by Nextrush

Italy says it will seize two migrant rescue ships in the Mediterranean, amid a deepening row over migrants.

Two German NGO ships carrying migrants "will be seized" to determine their legal status.

The move comes as French President Emmanuel Macron attacked the "leprosy" of anti-EU feeling, angering Italy's new populist government.

Italy sparked the fresh row earlier this month when it refused to take in the Aquarius rescue ship....

Leaders from the 10 EU member states will meet in Brussels on Sunday to discuss how best to stem the flow of migrants into the bloc.

The Italian government earlier said it will not sign up to any EU plan unless it makes helping Italy a priority, while Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary-known as the Visegrad Group-said they will boycott the talks....

In a speech in Brittany, Mr. Macron said anti-EU feeling was rising "a bit like a leprosy across Europe", including in "neighboring countries".....

Deputy Italian Prime Minister and leader of the Five Star movement Luigi DiMaio tweeted in Italian that Mr. Macron's words were "offensive and misplaced", saying that "true leprosy" is when countries turn back migranrs and then "preach to us" about calls for them to be redistributed to other EU states......

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Germany
KEYWORDS: eu; europe; hijrah; immigration; invasion; italy; migrants; ngos
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To: Mozzafiato

MIGA.


21 posted on 06/22/2018 1:49:12 AM PDT by Ciexyz (I have one issue and it's my economic well-being.)
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To: FenwickBabbitt

Salvini should be invited to the WH, flown down to Maralago on AF1, play a round with our VSGPOTUS, and then the press conference.


22 posted on 06/22/2018 2:29:21 AM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (TRUMP TRAIN !!! Get the hell out of the way if you are not on yet because we don't stop for idiots)
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To: Nextrush

Italy is being made great again. Go Salvini!


23 posted on 06/22/2018 3:16:14 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Liberalism is the denial of human nature.)
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To: Nextrush

We’ll see how much testicular fortitude Italy has when the EU allows an Italian bank or two to fail...


24 posted on 06/22/2018 3:18:38 AM PDT by mewzilla (Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
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To: steve86

And you know this how?


25 posted on 06/22/2018 3:20:33 AM PDT by kelly4c
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA

Act of war? Not if this is just a lot of sound and fury signifying nothing, a show of pretend strength to appease the masses.


26 posted on 06/22/2018 3:21:32 AM PDT by mewzilla (Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
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To: Maris Crane

“They have land, they have seeds, they have manpower, why in the name of God, do they have to travel thousands of miles instead of making their countries livable and comfortable.”

Because they get to lay around and live off of someone else. Oh, and there’s white women to rape.


27 posted on 06/22/2018 3:47:20 AM PDT by dljordan (WhoVoltaire: "To find out who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.")
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA
an act of war

Who started this war?

Isn't bringing in large numbers of non-assimmilable people, under false pretenses, in a DELIBERATE attempt to overwhelm & subvert a country's culture and economy, an act of war in itself??


28 posted on 06/22/2018 3:49:12 AM PDT by canuck_conservative
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

Might not be the best use of his time right now. He is going around from city to city talking up the popular coalition and doing a great job of it, while defending Italy’s recent actions on the migrant front.

Since the whole thrust is the Italian culture and identity, I don’t think they need the big dog America right now. The situation in the Middle East is different, where all the countries are choosing sides and an alliance with Trump is desirable.


29 posted on 06/22/2018 4:04:40 AM PDT by firebrand
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To: firebrand

And by the way, making comparisons with the fascists because he is going after Roma who are illegally there (not the legal ones) is ridiculous. He is stressing all colors, all nations, and the people are cheering.


30 posted on 06/22/2018 4:10:38 AM PDT by firebrand
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To: firebrand

And maybe he even did that so the other side would bring it up and he could refute it.


31 posted on 06/22/2018 4:12:25 AM PDT by firebrand (Lessons from Trump?)
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To: firebrand

Invite him anyway, an open invite. Let him choose when. It gives him a lot of political capital. Validate his government. Send Pompeo over in the mean time. Have the US validate him. Hell send Wilburine to help them craft an Iexit. Hell, call Abe, MBS and wait for it










Un and have an economic development summit in Tuscany.


32 posted on 06/22/2018 4:23:36 AM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (TRUMP TRAIN !!! Get the hell out of the way if you are not on yet because we don't stop for idiots)
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To: Maris Crane

“They have land, they have seeds, they have manpower, why in the name of God, do they have to travel thousands of miles instead of making their countries livable and comfortable.”

free handouts. it’s easier than planting those seeds.

same reason we are invaded


33 posted on 06/22/2018 4:33:28 AM PDT by CottonBall (Thank you , Julian!)
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To: Nextrush

The scum of the turd world continue their quest to kill the civilized world. Will they win this war on the civilized west?


34 posted on 06/22/2018 4:50:20 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot (MSM is our greatest threat. Disney, Comcast, Google Hollywood, NYTimes, WaPo, CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC ...)
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

Salvini need more than political capital. He needs the filthy lucre variety. Until Italy is willing to live within its means, the EU is more likely to kick Italy out than Italy is to leave. The citizenry is allowing itself to be suckered.


35 posted on 06/22/2018 4:53:31 AM PDT by mewzilla (Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
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To: Nextrush

Macron is in the closet.


36 posted on 06/22/2018 4:55:06 AM PDT by anton
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To: steve86

“STAY THE HELL HOME. THERE IS NO NEED FOR FOREIGNERS TO LEAVE HOME!”

This is also what the American Indians said to the Spanish visitors some hundreds of years ago.””

Invalid comparison. The Spanish brought western civilization, an end to child sacrifice, and a monumental advance in science, language, and an elevation of a very primitive lifestyle.


37 posted on 06/22/2018 5:36:04 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot (MSM is our greatest threat. Disney, Comcast, Google Hollywood, NYTimes, WaPo, CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC ...)
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To: Maris Crane

Make Italy Great Again (MIGA)


38 posted on 06/22/2018 5:38:33 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot (MSM is our greatest threat. Disney, Comcast, Google Hollywood, NYTimes, WaPo, CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC ...)
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To: steve86

You know, you are right.

We should all go home.


39 posted on 06/22/2018 6:08:38 AM PDT by Maris Crane
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To: bkopto

Yeah...the Navy submariners would give a months pay to be able to torpedo them!


40 posted on 06/22/2018 7:15:32 AM PDT by gr8eman (Since God has been banished from our classrooms, Satan has filled the void.)
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