Italy calls for more equal relationship with migration producing states

Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni has called for a new and more equal relationship between Europe and the developing countries that produce migrants.

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00:00 Italian Premier Giorgia Maloney has called for a new and more equal relationship between

00:04 Europe and developing countries that produce migrants.

00:08 The plea came at a summit she convened in Rome involving 20 nations as well as key EU

00:13 officials and international organisations.

00:16 She also blamed the people traffickers more than the poverty and conflicts that drives

00:20 migration from developing countries.

00:23 European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, meanwhile, spoke of opening up legal

00:27 avenues to migration.

00:29 "At the centre of the migratory flows are mainly them, people, lives, hopes, fears,

00:40 suffering.

00:41 Used, exploited by criminal organisations that only follow the logic of profit.

00:48 It is our duty to take care of our states, but it is also our duty to take care of the

00:55 destiny of these people."

00:59 The flow of migrants, many of them refugees, has risen by 50,000 this year in Italy and

01:04 it's not yet August.

01:06 But many developing countries disagree with Maloney on the causes.

01:10 Tunisian President Kai Sayed blamed the increased migration on European colonisation.

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