I have great hope for Giorgia Meloni in spite of the criticism. We can't pretend to know the pressures she is under, but she needs our prayers more than our criticism.
Italian Prime Minister Meloni slammed by Hungarian media and
France’s Le Pen for U-turn on migration
Five months ago, Jihad Watch reported, after Italy declared a state of emergency amid a migrant invasion:
Italy needs to do what Hungary has done: shut the door to illegal migration. It makes a mockery of a country’s immigration system, sending an open invitation to jump the queue, invites in the worst criminal and jihadist elements, and is economically unsustainable in the long run. Italy’s problem is longstanding. In 2021, nonstop Muslim migrant landings in Lampedusa became a “situation is out of control.” Lampedusa remains the problem area, as well as the entire Southern coast of Sicily.
Has Italy considered donating Lampedusa to Tunisia?
And last week, Italy’s crisis was again in the news when some 5,000 to 6,000 illegals arrived on Italy’s Lampedusa Island in a single day, in over 100 boats.
Now Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, whose so-called “far right” Brothers of Italy party won a sweeping majority last year, is now getting slammed by the Hungarian media and France’s Marine Le Pen for her U-turn on immigration policy. In fact, Meloni introduced legislation last month to allow up to 1.5 million new migrants to enter Italy through legal channels. Her reasoning aligns with that of globalists, who say mass migration is needed to fill the void of low birthrates across Europe. Statistics have shown that open-door immigration policies instead import soaring crime, jihad threats, and unemployment. There is a good reason why twelve member EU nations pleaded to the EU for help to finance border walls.
Hungarian news outlet M1 Híradó, which is reportedly ideologically aligned with Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz party, published a story about Meloni’s surprising “180-degree turn” on immigration since she became prime minister. Remix News stated:
Despite Orbán and other conservative leaders backing Meloni’s campaign, her actions as prime minister have been raising eyebrows in conservative circles across Europe and placed her now in the ranks of pro-migration politicians typically seen on the left-liberal spectrum.
France’s Marine Le Pen also just “joined her Italian ally Matteo Salvini during a rally in Italy where she slammed Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni over her handling of Italy’s raging immigration crisis.”
Yet days ago, Meloni “urged its 193 member states to ‘wage a global war’ against smugglers and said Italy would not be turned into “Europe’s refugee camp.’” At the same time, she asked for international help on a migrant invasion that she is not only now condoning but facilitating via legislation. Meloni is in a quandary, as she is evidently being pulled in the direction of globalist politicians while openly supporting a conservative view. This may provide some important insight into her erratic flip-flopping: “With Italy’s borrowing costs soaring, some analysts are saying Meloni is at the mercy of the EU and, perhaps more importantly, the European Central Bank (ECB) to remain in power due to Italy’s delicate economic situation. Just last summer, yields on Italian debt were a mere 0.4 percent and have since jumped close to 4.4 percent and hovered there for months.”
“France’s Le Pen slams Meloni’s handling of Italy’s migrant crisis, refers to ‘cowardice,’”
Marine Le Pen, who leads the National Rally’s parliamentary faction in France, joined her Italian ally Matteo Salvini during a rally in Italy where she slammed Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni over her handling of Italy’s raging immigration crisis.
“(There is) trouble, trouble for those leaders who don’t realize there are signs of alarm and danger from the massive arrival of migrants on Lampedusa. An island of 6,000 people, where more than 6,000 migrants arrived in a single day — trouble for the population in which the leaders don’t take action immediately to face this giant challenge,” said Le Pen. Although Le Pen never mentions Meloni by name, the Associated Press characterized the comments as a “swipe” at Meloni during the rally in Pontida, Italy, where thousands gathered to watch Le Pen and Salvini, leader of the Leauge party, speak.
However, in even more shocking terminology, Le Pen referred to Meloni and what she described as “cowardice,” saying that there are those leaders “who justify their cowardice by claiming there is no alternative.”
It is not the first time that Le Pen has lambasted Meloni. Last June, Le Pen said that she recognized Meloni was “hindered” by the budget situation in her country, but that according to Le Pen, “everything is a question of political will.”
Nevertheless, many conservatives in Europe are beginning to sour on Meloni as well, with Hungarian media running critical stories on her handling of the migrant crisis….
