Meloni’s navy-blockade plan to stop Libya migrants ‘unlikely’

(EUobserver) Italy’s incoming far-right government will most likely attempt to usher in reforms to deny people their right to asylum.

But some of the ideas put forward by the expected premier-to-be Giorgia Meloni and her Brothers of Italy party are unlikely to see the light of day.

Among them is a proposal for a “European military mission, carried out in agreement with the Libyan authorities,” to stop people from fleeing towards Italy.

“The question of sending military ships is not a possibility I would consider real,” said Luca Masera, a professor at University of Bresvia and a member of Italy’s Association for Juridical Studies on Immigration (ASGI).

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