Britain and Italy have agreed to jointly fund a plan to return to their countries of origin migrants who have arrived in Tunisia and are trying to cross the Mediterranean to Europe, while British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak warned in Rome on Saturday that the level of illegal migration had reached a limit when it risks “overwhelming” European countries, Reuters, DPA and EFE report.

Invited by Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Maloney to the annual forum of her far-right Brothers of Italy party, the British prime minister delivered a speech in which he sharply criticized the global asylum system as his government tries to revive a deal that allows migrants arriving in Britain be deported to the African nation of Rwanda, regardless of their country of origin.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak estimated that in addition to smugglers who bring migrants to Europe for a fee, there are also some “enemies who deliberately send people to our shores to try to destabilize our societies”.

• “If we do not solve this problem, the number (of migrants) will only increase. It will overwhelm our countries and our ability to help those who really need our help the most,” the head of the British conservative government emphasized.
• “If this requires us to adjust the law and open an international debate to review the post-war asylum legislation, then we must do so to stem the tide of migration,” urged Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, while the European Union, in which the country , which came out, is preparing a new asylum system that will oblige member states where fewer migrants arrive to accept migrants who have arrived in frontline countries.

Although the UK is located relatively far from the migration routes that pass through the Mediterranean and the Balkans, it is exposed to a strong migration wave of those who, after crossing Europe, also try to cross the English Channel. That’s why the British and Italian governments announced on Saturday that they will jointly fund a plan to see African migrants arriving in Tunisia with the intention of crossing the Mediterranean to Europe repatriated to their countries of origin.

In his speech in Rome, Rishi Sunak paraphrased his 1980s predecessor Margaret Thatcher, who once said that “ideas are important if they can be put into practice.” “This motto should be applied today to illegal migration,” concluded the British Prime Minister.