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reThe cabinet in Rome approved a draft of a new security decree on Monday night. This will almost completely reverse the essential provisions of the two security decrees that the then Interior Minister Matteo Salvini of the right-wing nationalist Lega had enforced during his term from June 2018 to August 2019. An essential part of the decrees of Salvini was the closure of all ports in the country to ships with rescued migrants on board, the confiscation of private rescue ships entering Italian ports despite the ban, and the imposition of draconian fines of up to one million euros. to the owners and operators of the vessels.
Matthias Rüb
Political correspondent for Italy, the Vatican, Albania and Malta, based in Rome.
The Interior Minister, Luciana Lamorgese, who was not part of the party, drafted the new security decree and presented it to the cabinet after lengthy negotiations with government partners of the left-wing coalition of Social Democrats and the five-star movement Left-wing populist, who has been in office since September 2019. The Five Star Movement finally abandoned its resistance to the de facto withdrawal of Salvini’s security decrees, which it had emphatically supported and unanimously adopted during his time in office with the Lega.
Independent Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte had promised months ago that Salvini’s security decrees would be amended. Private aid organizations accused the left-wing coalition in Rome of continuing Salvini’s anti-immigration policies, including detaining aid ships in Italian ports for alleged security deficiencies. With the new security decree, the Social Democrats within the left coalition have reaffirmed themselves against the five-star movement, which formally remains the strongest force in the government alliance.
No more confiscation of rescue boats
“Salvini’s propaganda decrees are a thing of the past,” wrote Social Democratic Party leader Nicola Zingaretti on Twitter after the cabinet meeting: “We want a more humane and safe Italy. And we want a stronger Europe ”. In parliament, the debate over the decree is expected to lead to a heated dispute between the parties of the left-wing coalition and the right-wing opposition led by the Lega. Ratification of the decree by majority vote of the ruling parties in both chambers is considered probable.
In the new regulation, saving human lives from dangerous situations at sea becomes an obligation in accordance with the Italian Constitution and international law. President Sergio Mattarella had already warned him by signing Salvini’s security decrees in 2018 and 2019, but without refusing to confirm the decrees.
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The decree also stipulates that particularly vulnerable people cannot be returned or deported if there is a risk of serious human rights violations in their country of origin. In case of non-compliance with the prohibition of entry to a port by the private maritime rescuers, the fines will be reduced to the previous level of 10,000 to 50,000 euros;
