German MP predicts Merkel could be ousted by the end of next week

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Salvini Says Italy to Turn Away New Migrant Ships From Libya
By Daniele Lepidoand Charles Penty June 16, 2018
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...ips-from-libya

Italy won’t be complicit in illegal immigration, Salvini says
Spanish government says France offers to help take migrants


Salvini’s battle to curb arrivals from across the Mediterranean has rocked relations between the new Italian governing coalition and France just over a week after the administration led by the League party and the Five Star Movement was sworn in. The spat could threaten broader efforts led by France and Germany to reform euro area governance.

Almost 60 percent of Italians are in favor of closing the country’s ports, supporting Salvini’s anti-immigration strategy, Ferdinando Pagnoncelli, president of polling company Ipsos Italia, wrote Saturday in Corriere della Sera, citing a survey conducted on June 12-13.

Lingering political tensions over the unresolved question of how to control immigration from outside Europe have now broken out into the open, and the fallout is reshaping alliances and stoking old rivalries from Rome to Berlin, Paris and Vienna.

German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said in an interview with Corriere della Sera, adding that he invited his Italian counterpart Enzo Moavero Milanesi to Berlin.

Salvini, leader of the anti-immigrant League, lost no time in falling out with some close European allies over his decision to deny access to port for a refugee vessel earlier this month. His stance also forced uncomfortable decisions in Spain, which was forced to take in the ship turned away from Italy with 629 migrants on board, and is threatening Chancellor Angela Merkel, who faces renewed domestic turbulence over her open-door stance on migrants that could yet spell her early departure.

Meanwhile, Spanish coastguards reported waves of migrants trying to reach Spanish shores from North Africa in boats. As many as 933 people have been rescued in the Western Mediterranean and Straits of Gibraltar over the past 48 hours, the Spanish sea rescue service Salvamento Maritimo said on its twitter account. Four have died, it said.

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Having saturated the Middle East and Africa with armaments our Western arms-dealers should be stripped of their assets in order to fund humanitarian rescue missions for the refugees they have created.

Where should we start- Lockheed Martin ? BAE ?

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good. italy should send them all to spain and that will be the next domino to fall.

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Having saturated the Middle East and Africa with armaments our Western arms-dealers should be stripped of their assets in order to fund humanitarian rescue missions for the refugees they have created.

Where should we start- Lockheed Martin ? BAE ?

id support taking the assets of all the european ones

[dukkha]

good. italy should send them all to spain and that will be the next domino to fall.

i would not bet against it

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i would not bet against it

She has been given an ultimatum, sort the immigration problem out in two weeks or go!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...nt-crisis.html

[dukkha]

But Merkel immediately rejected the threat, saying there would be 'no automatism' if no European deals were found, and warning Seehofer and his Bavarian CSU party that she is ultimately in charge of government policies.

Over the past week, a conflict between Seehofer and Merkel over migrant policy has escalated into a threat to her government. It comes with EU nations once again at loggerheads over immigration, triggered by Italy's refusal this month to allow a rescue ship carrying 630 migrants to dock.

^ Tom's link
Libyan refugees turned away by the new anti-migration Italian leadership..i think,,, she's got a problem..

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It's not looking good for Angela.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/polit...her-oettingeru