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off to a lifetime within the walls of a new rainy into a bengal tiger horizon, suddenly whiten when she lands and i'm likely roll in a speech at the foot. how long can have be just sweet freedom. last, when crisis strikes, this is the witness my a tiger tail on which is the or cash from the you to helps your news here, cub migration, lately, 2000 people from africa have died so far this year trying to reach your across the mediterranean. so how come to block square keeping out migrants for the human rights obligations? this is inside story, the
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hello welcome to the program. i'm adrian for the good. the italian and dutch prime ministers and the european commission president. have been introduce you to sign a deal on financial aid. part of that will pay for a clamp down on migration. people wanting to start a new life and you are a put traveled to the country from across africa and elsewhere. june is he has been accused of a racist policy for expelling people now trapped on the border with libya. with that bod, from entering the allows migration from ukraine because of the countries with russia. but it's paying to prevent african migrants reaching it shows at helping other countries like libya, the face obligations of abusing migrants. human rights will shortly be discussing the use migration policy and the rights of both seeking a better life in europe. but 1st, a report from out of here is sort of highlight and they thought they were heading
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to a better future in europe. but those dreams came to a sudden, and dizziness ortiz rounded up hundreds of black african migrants and left them stranded on the border with libya, with a will that's been going on for years. they've been. authorities refused to help leaving them in a hot byron stretch of does it with very little water bill food, some injured others pregnant along with that children. they've enjoyed long johnny's mostly from sub saharan africa. and now this we are diary one of the i pro dies then it's, i really feel very, it's if i brought up as soon as we are back in new people. so boss on this, other players thought the government doesn't want them into disease or migrant. so being helped by some local people, tensions are high in the board of thomas fox and others have been arrested that foster it's and is in mind. we stop to death last week in a fight with several migrants. human rights organizations have called for emergency
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aid and shelter to be allowed in as soon as possible. the red crescent has reached some, but many have yet to be rescued. run o t c i my guns, we are not to laws. we all make. god goes looking to beat up a good life, you know, we're not claiming dollars. we are not so you feel like i'm ready to, lizzie, and present case side has previously been accused of making racist comments when he blamed migrants for the countries economic crisis on start today, he said migration inputs and his yes is criminally organized. no, i thought we all africans and we cherish all african identity, but we refused to be a land of trends. it's orlando settlement. this is not regular immigration, this is a displacement operation. it's supervised by criminal networks, the traffic human beings and organs, and also need to make money, but also the stabilize the country. the disease economy has been struggling for years, restoring debt, high inflation, and unemployment. that's pushed on citizens to risk their own lives by costing the
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magistrate and to reach europe. the international organizations migration says $1895.00 people have died or gone missing on route from northern africa across the sea so far this year, including hundreds of children, just over 2400, died on the journey and all of 2022 syrup and commission present, as well as the timing and that's prime ministers all incentives. you have to discuss a european union last month of the country, more than $1000000000.00 to help its economy bots. it's come with cabinets, including reinforcing the border to stop migrants from jenny into europe. human rights watch has accused the tendency and government of the collective expulsion of black migrants. it says about $200.00 have been left to fend for themselves. it's an easy border without jerry a. some have already died. it's not cable present, so i, it's long term times also taco migration, whether a deal with the mess that he's rejected before could help reduce migration to your
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through to move the away from politics deals are being discussed. fatalities have turned into days and days into nearly 2 weeks with many migrants still not rescued . so the height of the inside story. all right, let's bring it out. guess for today's discussion from rome, we're joined by phone and i'm ready for the president of the international affairs institute, the think tank and full. but it's only an impass of that to the european union from cuteness, were joined by regowski, a human rights and anti racism. activist and from london to measure the c 2 is cynthia policy follow on the middle east and north africa program at the european council on foreign relations level. welcome to you will a topic. let's start with you. given the erosion of democratic norms, introducing the fact that president chi side has rejected the terms of an i am f loan. i'm to set that this country won't become
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a border god for other countries. why would you think the loading should is the 900000000 euros. i hope it's economy including 150000000 to help it address. migration would be a good idea. well, thank you firstly for inviting me on the to be to declare things out. first the, the 900000000 is linked to the future. acceptance of and i must deal, at least that is what the e u and, and some of the member states have been attains to, to put across the additional 150000000 to, to police the border so to speak. uh, is the, the real question and, you know, i mean, why, why would it be a good idea? it's probably better to say why they would believe it would be a good idea. or it's essentially dumpling, down on the, on the policy which they know. and the on the policy tools that they believe that they have in the box. unfortunately, this approach hasn't worked in the past. it hasn't worked in libya. and over the
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past year of them trying it, migrant numbers have only increased so it doesn't bode well. it will list a package, if indeed it, it goes ahead, do anything to ease the migrant crisis, will make it was a why does the you think it's so important to both the jan, this is economy given as i said, the erosion of the democratic norms, the i'm not sure i've got to correct the question, but it's because the one of them is bucket seats in the one function and but really speaking, i think that you're treating countries in general and those countries that are in the southern parts of euro, but usually like each of degrees launch ro, stains have a strong interest in disability alternate. as i saw many, many reasons the management of monitors to disclose is not the only reason and the
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we have a already know the size of the media to be installed to tries is because of the neighboring countries allow us like to news. and this is why is an attempt which is going on for some ways to try to strike a deal with the government's indonesia that would encompass several components is not only management the lives of the souls. it's also not critical. nomics, the bbc is the project in all the normal trend and investments. and he said he all of assisting can use that in the energy transition. the multiples, i think the visa, the views from the need to be sold before the weekend is defined between you. that's an aged uh and my soul that these visits we have solving the last remaining problems. it's always private as the federal and how does the i am asked to relax
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the terms of the financial deal, the loan to tennessee or do you think the i m f will do that? um, once again the some trouble in the email is sending you a question about the ireland as its own rules. and it's up to the board of the i may have to decide on whether or not the conditions man, so as to be able to forget it. may i ask to deliver the assistance which has been promised and has been down and make a decision to buy some time of the government in your boss? certainly supposing to, you know, the loan will be awarded by game activities and government bodies not only due reviews that make the decision into both of diana, so i'm afraid that they will be students. the problem is the need to be solved before. uh, an agreement can be reached between the item last and page and gone. and this in turn is preconditioned for you to deliver. the problem is,
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assistance all 9 on the new york to the canadian government, sorry, might be going on next to the you can all the visa systems, unless there is an agreement to the i m. s. frame. as i said, a 150000000 euros. as part of this 900000000, you're a package to help to. does he address a migration? what do you think of it? is that a good idea or, or not? is it going to ease the migrant crisis? will make it worse to i think it's going to make the migrant crisis worse because i'm just throwing money in. the issue is not gonna solve that. i think least a with the current and ongoing my goods price isn't unusual. we're seeing how migrants are being treated and how their human rights are being compromised. so it was striking this new deal. i think the migration prices will worsen,
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especially with the waves of the partition that are going to happen, can sequence fee and the what they call the re admission process. so i don't think it's only a financial problem, but it's a lack of a certain strategy that is concerned with the human rights of migrants, especially that playgrounds in europe. orienting asia are antagonize and often treated poorly and looks down on and condescended. so i don't think it's, it's, um, it's a very good idea to do this. so what, what is what lies behind the compromise that all of the human rights of migrants right now? yes, cuz right now we're seeing uh is it moved for or the past few weeks or who has been seeing ways of deeper sanction for such a hiring license and can use that for instance. and these violations compromise their physical safety. we've seen hundreds of migraines that stranded on the
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technician, libyan and the technician, uh old jerry and border without water, without food. uh, we've seen children uh, pregnant women, people who are in a very critical health condition. and human rights organizations have little to no control on the situation and we're trying to salvage it. so we've been you, waves of different nations from europe, including tunisian migrants and other nationalities is going to, is only going to worse than uh, the situation because of the lack of a strategy that takes into account the human rights of these individuals. because we're not talking about international deals solely, this is concerned with the human lives in human beings who are, what are, what was their livelihood? the stakes. so yes, the topic shouldn't the you be improving its, its own migration policies and edits attitude to the human rights, making it easier for migrants to reach the in you before paying other countries to
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stem the flow. yeah, absolutely. um, you know, this, this deal with, with jean is here is a migration policy and itself. and his reading was saying the, the situation of, of such a hard migraines that are passing through each in his ear or even why just staying and living and working in engine is here is, um, is a pulling uh, it's a humane. as we speak now, they are dying on the borders where they had been force of the stranded. and so for the you to to now rush to come back to choose. yeah. because even a few days ago, you know what the european commission was, was briefing the press that there had been no, no progress on this deal. so it's now rushed back to, to, in this, in these conditions, to try to put pen to paper on the deal. it shows you how, how you migration policy is unfortunate the point of desperation. and you know,
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when this broad or memorandum of understanding was 1st raised back in june, the european commission president are set up on july and said that the migration component would be implemented when for respect to human rights or something to that effect. and unfortunately, it seems like, you know, there will be no clear conditions, no clear stipulations on this if it is to be rushed through as we are being led to believe right now. um, you know, instead of of trying to externalize the management of this problem, teaching is yet to libya, to other countries that are clearly incapable of doing so without severe human rights abuses. the european union and european members state should be trying to take control of this issue themselves. they should be trying to manage this issue themselves and it would be far more effective for them to do so. and i believe that it would also quell a lot of the anxiety within europe that comes from seeing my group from,
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from seeing my grades arrive on thoughts and to people smokers. because then that governments would be taking much more control of this issue. instead of abandoning the issue to 2 dictators to munitions and people smugglers, you're talking about the, as i say, within your a, a, with people seeing these migrants arriving on on the shores of one understands that europe needs to, to manage migration to make it more orderly, and structured so the people don't lose their lives trying to get that, but the fact is, the e, you need these people doesn't that it needs more skills book has right now. yeah, i mean um, goes to germany, go to italy. i even see united kingdom and there are huge labor shortages right now . there is a dire need for migrants and, you know, the reason why i frame my last response is i did is because us in europe is not in the position. it is now due to a lack of policy options. there are plenty of policy options for creating safe and
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legal hood for, for refugees, and for a better organizing and processing my grids. it's not a policy problem that europe has. it's a political, popular. politicians are too scared to even discuss these policies, not to know, try to, to adopt and advocate them because they believe that to do so would be political suicide. because since the early 19 ninety's, european governments has been kind of seating ground slowly and slowly to the far right and a bit to appease them on this topic, which is always been very exclusive and in the popular corrina. and so, you know, gradually bit by bit, so they've essentially painted themselves into a corner now 30 years later, where they can't use any of the policy tools at their disposal to solve the problem . because they believe to do so would be to to lose a debate that has been stacked against them for the last 30 years. but to not do so, we'll just make the problem worse and worse, and much more important than any politics. it will continue to lead to the deaths
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of thousands of people every year. for the do you agree with that? to what extent is the new policy on migration being dictated right now by the rise of fall right policies in, in both national parliaments and in the parliament itself. the deficiency? yes. because the mind nation, phenomenal migration has been explored to 5 clearly by rights is political by pc, probably 41 or 2 countries more in somebody not as about these. this is a nominal which is why the, the more we're good it captures. and as a matter of fact, there is a going to do to the power drops the goes, most european countries need minus that job market. that's pretty nice by that as bows in the i could capture the sector and to truly expect jobs and stuff in the country likely to lead or in other sectors as well. what can be, what cannot be
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a fall of the body. the thing countries is migration, which is knox match which is already related. so the idea solution would be a broad agreement between countries that are due to that suited to receive my less encounters of origin. so as to be as possible to managed migration tools and make it possible for me, i would ask to see the back of these are the exist and i would show markets. so it's not easy. i fully understand that. so the problem is the complex to set it up to a new data. uh, so there is a need to spend on both sides from the law sense of the saw that migration is, is structured on phenomena that can only be managed to read solutions. and my work goes out, and these are the most european gods, the only talk, the only domain problem is how to regulate these phenomena in the amount of that
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would make is basically sustainable in multitude constant. so that might be so and my control is what about increased the support for dr. keys, but it's a good bodies. raymond, has think you lost its moral compass in terms of its attitude to migrant. some refugees, i'm sorry. can you repeat the question? i the sound cut off in the middle. how's the e? you lost its moral compass in terms of its attitude to migrants and refugees? yes, i mean with the we've seen what happened lately with the waves or the migrant to and i think you're a business story is for the way, if it has been treated by grants all along, it has lost this tomorrow. kansas. i think my grants are not seen as human beings who are, who have been pushed by their economic conditions to,
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to take on to the sea and the rest of their lives on the search of a better life. but as this threat to the security of europe and they have been treated accordingly, we've seen how people who try to rescue migraines has been condemned in europe as of what happened lately. so yes, i think europe has lost its moral compass when dealing with migrants because they're not looked at as human beings anymore. they're looked at as this political problem that needs to be salvaged and uh, sold through international deals and protecting borders. as we, as we were hearing ream of europe needs these people that needs skilled labor to what extent is a problem that but falls squarely the responsibility for which falls squarely with european governments of the year itself. and that it needs to sell the issue of
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migration to people a best. well, yeah it's, it's, it's, it's not about selling the, the, the issue it is, it is a p r problem to themselves. they are, the human experience has become a p r issue in a political debate. however, the issue with even with regulated migration is, is very complicated and complex it's, it's not very accessible. and i can tell you that even people who try to migrate through the legal means find the whole procedure very humor, the same with the paper work and the interviews and everything that you have to provide. so i think that you need a whole new perspective when it comes to migration a way that protects the dignity and respect the human life that it's going to. it's borders to me, to search for labor to search for a better life, were to search for, for jobs. basically,
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a topic when you talked about the european commission president us live on the line earlier. and one of your answers when she announced this to nancy a deal, she said that it would be a model for the migration. i mean, what do you think she meant by that? is it even something to, to crow about the latest genuinely think the doing the right thing here? or are they doing this to a piece as you talked about the rise of the far right. you know, growing concerned and criticism from right wing politicians and the citizens who put the gun to vote for them in, in large numbers. i think it's a, it's a bit of both. um, so some of it is plain to the crowd is a signal fine. i mean, for the, on the line she signifying to the new center right far right, locked into european parliament that she is taking this issue seriously. and she's dealing with it, how they would have liked to deal with it. but, but you know,
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before this m o u, what this deal was being set up to be the future model of a you migration deals the autonomy and deal with the, the libyan government of nation mccord and 2016 or 17, dump them in need to deal after the form of to the interior minister and the deal with turkey to stem, the flow of syrian refugees were considered the model for, for europe and migration policy in the region. so this is very much just a, a continuation of that. and you know, if you speak to, to the technocrats or, or to those, you know, at the most senior levels who are, who are dealing with this policy. they do believe that it has been successful. you know, that it has stopped doing. it does lower numbers of migrants of refugees crossing into your which i think speaks more to the to the very limited and then the human eyes way that they look at this problem. but also to the short term is and with
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which the problem is framed. i mean, if you look at the statistics from the international organization of migration and from human rights organizations, and none of these deal stuff, but anything to stem, the number of migrants that are coming with it has done is to increase the number of deaths in the mediterranean sea and in other routes that, that people are taking towards europe. so it's just made their lives more miserable . and you know, as we see now, they made these deals before and that back making more deals because you're but essentially externalizing this problem and is offering to pay large amounts of money to other people, to manage the migration crisis for them. these people know that this issue is very sensitive to the europeans, and so it's almost like europe has gotten itself into an extortion that consults. and so the cost of keeping migrants away from europe are, you know, they will keep going up and up. uh, even now offer the deal with libya was made to have
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a new pressure is coming from eastern to be at this time you have president side an engine. is he trying to leverage the migration issue, presidents in egypt just to leverage the migration issue? and so, you know, the longer that you are keeps using these kinds of deals as a model more just just advertising itself. okay. open to the extortion of this sort of under what, what do you make of that, that you know, that this has become a list and extortion record for the you have your ups. politicians and citizens become a new, a to the scale of the human tragedy. here, disasters the wood, one, some spot more outraged, now seemed to provoke or i'd much ringing of hands at expressions of regret before being quickly forgotten the swept under the carpet. would you agree? i'm not sure i've got directv your question because he, how he was very for about i agree with what has been said before that to your
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opinion on which has not been able to find a agreeable solutions to deal with by creation into a uh, with a soc turned off by then sharing between units and countries in india. acceptance is my mouse as being rather more if i may say as little successful externalizing the problem asking countries or trying to see the that's a lot to care about the problem. okay, so, so he has to be in the 1st spot which has been quoted and it's greg. we've tried to do the same with media and now we're trying to do something similar with tanisha. this is the sign that the problem is very difficult to manage. i fully understand the configuration a shadow to go see the issues that's been uh, in order to be followed by address. because as having just seen before, me on the need to guarantee these people. that means that countries,
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the human conditions of respectful basic fundamental human drives. on the other hand, there is a problem that sees flows of 5 minutes or less. now in some ways mandatory regulates, is becoming politically honest, sustainable. even though the problem in terms of numbers, they could be sustainable batter sees they are exploited systematically, probably takes a bunch of you. it's becoming very complicated for governments to deal with this phenomenon without, without the assistance, all countries of transit. okay, now the gum. yeah, i'm sorry, sorry to interrupt you, but we're almost out of time. i want to get one more question in for reimbursement 2 years ago and a report entitled lease will disregard the you and rights office of the commissioner said that the lack of human rights protection for migrants crossing the central mediterranean is not a tragic anomaly, but rather a consequence of concrete policy decisions practices by the european union member
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states and institutions and other actors. i mean, nothing's changed in 2 years, up at the same question to you have yours politicians become a new a to the, to the, to the human tragedy here. yes, i central lack of certain policies that protects the human rights of migrants is a direct factor either from the part of the, the european union or from our side. i think putting in place laws and regulations and studying. here's the current condition, and what keeps people to take on such either to decide to, to, to me, to europe is, is, is the way to, to salvage the situation. but i agree that the poor decision making that happened from both sides and the total disregard for,
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for human life and human rights. this is what led to this crisis. and i, i'm going to repeat myself again, but i think it's important when you look at the migration a crisis as a, as purity as a political issue and not as a human rights issue. that's where you kind of lose your moral compass. that's where you start the i'm afraid we're gonna have to end it many thanks indeed for the not the, the photo chee regowski and try to measure the sea and thank you for watching. you can see the program again at any time by going to the websites of algebra dot com for further discussion. join us with our facebook page. you'll find that at facebook dot com forward slash h i inside story out of course, you can join the conversation on twitter handle at a inside story. for me, i agree instead of going other team here. and so thanks for watching. we'll see you again, bye for the, the
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