Lampedusa brings Meloni back to earth but Salvini and Le Pen continue their delirious shell game

"Lampedusa reports the Melons on earth” is the title effectively LeJournal.info, the new French independent site founded and directed by Laurent Joffrin, former creative director of Nouvel Observateur and Liberation. The Italian far right had promised during the electoral campaign – observes Joffrin – to drastically reduce immigration but now it clashes with reality: in a year “the arrivals of migrants on Italian soil have increased exponentially and – symbol of symbols – the small southern island of Lampedusa was overwhelmed in a few days by the arrival of a number of refugees greater than its population”. The agreements with the failed tunisia and harassment against Ong, "the tragic truth of migratory flows has imposed itself on the Italian Government" and we will see today what the Prime Minister will propose to the Council of Ministers, but it is significant that in Lampedusa the President of the EU, Ursula Von der Leyen, while promising solidarity with Italy, has not at all taken into consideration the Melonian idea of ​​an anti-migrant naval mission in the Mediterranean. For goodness sake, the biblical exodus of migrants towards Italy and Europe is such an epochal tragedy that no one has easy recipes but the possible solutions, all difficult - Joffrin again points out - cannot deviate from the dignified welcome of migrants , from the scrupulous examination of their situation, from the hospitality in Italy and the distribution in Europe of those who meet the admission criteria and from the repatriation with dignity of others. Reasonable words. Completely the opposite of what was heard at the League meeting in Pontida where Matteo Salvini hosted the leader of the far right Marine Le Pen in a festival of demagogy, populism and racism of the worst kind seasoned with the game of three cards. Two examples for everyone: “Le Pen's idea of ​​Europe – says Salvini – is ours”: it's a shame that the pro-Putinist Le Pen doesn't want Europe but its disintegration, exactly like the Russian dictator. Then - second example - Le Pen reciprocates by celebrating Salvini's muscular anti-migrant policy and argues that Italy should do as France did by closing its ports to migrants. Not just there France does not close i ports blindly but in her country Le Pen is waging an all-out fight against the President Emmanuel Macron and Italy Does it re-evaluate its migration policy? This is called playing the three card game. A way of saying that immigration is a terrible tragedy but that Salvini and Le Pen's fake solutions have only one name: nonsense