Faced with the biblical exodus of the migrants towards'Italian and towardsEurope no one really has a recipe for dealing with an epochal problem of this scale. But in the face of so many useless words and silly propaganda provocations on the model of the naval blockade in the Mediterranean, the wise observations of the economic historian give pause for thought. Julius Sapelli in a recent interview with Italia Oggi. Sapelli says a few but very clear things: 1) let's put it out of our heads that we can block theimmigration and let's not forget that in 2050 there will be three times as many Africans as Europeans; 2) if we do not want immigration to become an unsustainable invasion, we must learn to govern it and know that other European countries do not want immigrants; 3) govern immigration it means we are the ones who choose who to come, reaching economic partnership agreements with the countries ofSub-Saharan Africa and investing in training and facilities to bring the personnel our industries and services need to Europe; 4) the partnership model is the one created by Germany Kenya to give a job to young Kenyans trained in their country of origin based on the needs of German companies; 5) it would be nice if the African countries with which we have to deal respected civil and political rights but let's not have too many illusions; 6) we don't think that a good immigration policy can work miracles immediately but we take into account that the results will arrive in decades. However, we must immediately go in the right direction.
It is a code of great realism but which to be applied requires political intelligence and the banning of the propaganda that rages today. But there is another aspect, usually overlooked, which stands out in Sapelli's interview and it is the indictment against sindacati for their silence on immigration. Sapelli has always been very close to the trade unions, as a young man in the Fiom of Turin and in recent years at the CISL but his intellectual honesty makes him say that today "the silence of the trade unions is deafening, they only know how to claim rights for everyone but do not act as leaders of a true innovation process" in which the orderly reception of migrants to be trained in their countries of origin and directed towards our factories that most need personnel can have great value. It's hard to blame him. Well done Prof.