Italian MPs campaigning to deprive the European Union the Nobel peace prize

Sergey Startsev. The MPs of the main opposition forces of Italy - socio-political "Movement 5 stars" (DS) called on the Nobel Foundation to consider the issue Of deprivation of the European Union the Nobel peace prize.

One of the most prestigious international awards was awarded to the EU in 2012 for his contribution to the consolidation of peace and democracy. Then the Nobel Committee justified its decision by saying that the EU has done a lot of work for the unification of Europe and turning it from " a continent of war to a continent of peace ".

As said on Thursday Last news authorized group DS in the Chamber of deputies, the opposition MPs believe that the Awarding of the Nobel peace prize to the EU was " unfair and undeserved, given the indifference shown by European institutions in the last few years to the migration problem."

"The award of the EU was motivated by contribution to peace, reconciliation, democracy and human rights in the European Union. But the war in Ukraine and the arrival in the European Union many thousands of migrants by land, and across the Mediterranean sea at a constant refusal to enter the allocation of quotas (of migrants between countries of the EU - ed.) and to revise the Dublin agreement, we demanded that dozens of times, does not make our continent a continent of peace, " draw the attention of Deputies.

The drop, which was the final straw for the people's deputies from DS, was another tragedy that occurred Wednesday in the Sicilian Strait, where on a boat with illegal migrants rescuers found the bodies of 52 victims. Since the beginning of 2015 on the road to the European Union cost the life of more than 2, 5 thousand immigrants from North Africa and the Middle East.

review of parliamentarians, the story is About the "failure of the authorities in Italy, who are unable to cope with the phenomenon, seriously undermine the stability" of the country, and also About the "failure of the European Union and its policies" in the field of migration.

The urgent need for fundamental changes in EU approaches to the immigration issue was pronounced and Authorized official of Rome. So, the head of Italy's foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni said on the first day of the week that Europe risks losing the oversight of immigration in that case, if not " take on their shoulders the resolution of the emergency ".

according to the information published in the last month of summer the leadership of the EU operation " Triton ", from January to July 2015 on the platform of the European Union profit 340 thousand migrants. Over the same period last year the number of immigrants was only 123, 5 thousand, and in 2014 - 280 thousand. for the first time in recent months in July, the number of migrants arriving in the EU, exceeded one hundred thousand people and amounted to 107, 5 thousand. The maximum flow of immigrants registered in Italy, which arrives nearly thirty percent of all migrants in Greece.


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