in writing - Salvini lies: it is not true that Italy is left alone with migration: last friday I and other Members of Special Committee on Terrorism passed by the Acquarius, docked at Catania, and went all the way to the Pozzalo "hotspot", which would not be equipped and able to articulate with European Law Enforcement Command structures to identify, screen and assist people arriving, if it would not be for European funding, manning and organization.

Salvini lies: portraying migrants and refugees as threats and omitting that inflows into Italy have dramatically decreased. And yes, maybe inflows are managed by mafias trafficking human beings, but only because other liars and fear-mongers in European governments are fuelling their sordid business by refusing to open legal, controlled ways for migrants and refugees.

Italy and Malta violated international and European law by refusing 629 people rescued by the Aquarius. The socialists now in power in Spain saved European decency and humanity. But that will not always work: we need governments to approve at the next European Council the Dublin Regulation reform and the full migration/asylum package, proposed by the EP to ensure that the Union, in solidarity, manages migrations, not the human traffickers.