![]() Meloni hailed the deal, suggesting it could become “a model” for future agreements with other Maghreb countries and the entire African continent. The Tunis memorandum was strongly championed by Italian Premier Meloni, whose far-right government has long vowed to stop surging migration flows to Italy’s southern shores, trying to convince EU partners of the common need “to defend European borders.” “At the same time, as Tunisia and the EU were preparing to sign this agreement, Tunisian authorities left hundreds of people, including children, stranded at Tunisia’s desert borders, initially without water, food or shelter,” she added, noting that the deal would make the EU “complicit in the suffering that will inevitably result.” “This ill-judged agreement, signed despite mounting evidence of serious human rights abuses by authorities, will result in a dangerous expansion of already failed migration policies and signals EU acceptance of increasingly repressive behavior by Tunisia’s president and government,” Eve Geddie, Amnesty International’s advocacy director for Europe, said in a statement. This could lead to an increasingly critical situation for migrants departing from the country, replicating the problems that stemmed from similar agreements with Libya over the past few years. Human rights organizations, however, said the agreement comes amid reports of escalating violence and abuses against sub-Saharan African migrants by Tunisian authorities. Under the memorandum of understanding (MoU) – signed after a crucial meeting between EU Commission head Ursula von der Leyen, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Tunisian President Kais Saied – Brussels agreed to give Tunis financial and technical support to “deter” Europe-bound migration, which has been increasingly originating from Tunisian shores.Īccording to the few details made public, the deal aims to prevent migrants from reaching Europe irregularly increase returns of Tunisian citizens who have no permission to stay in Europe and facilitate repatriation from Tunisia to third countries of migrants of other nationalities. ![]() ![]() In mid-July, the EU finalized a much-anticipated agreement with Tunisia to cooperate on curbing a surge in migration flows to Europe’s Mediterranean shores, but international law experts and humanitarian groups warn that the €1 billion ($1.11 billion) deal could lead to severe rights violations instead of helping solve complex issues. ![]()
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