Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini warns that the European Union’s two unelected presidents and its 27 unelected commissioners have abandoned Italy in its time of need. Social media has been awash with videos of migrants storming the shores of Italy in recent days, and Italy’s supposedly conservative government is being forced to respond.

Matteo Salvini, known for his hawkish stance on immigration during his tenure as interior minister in 2018, said on Wednesday that ‘when 120 boats filled with migrants arrive on the shores of Italy at the same time, ‘it is not a spontaneous phenomenon, it is a declaration of war on Europe.’

The deputy prime minister of the supposedly right-wing government in Rome, who currently heads the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport, referred to the fact that the boats with approximately 6,000 migrants docked on the island of Lampedusa in one day. He stressed that the problem was not exclusive to Lampedusa and that the situation threatened to ‘collapse Italian society as a whole.’

Salvini said he is convinced that mass migration to Europe was being orchestrated by Brussels with the collaboration of criminal organizations, including human trafficking organizations. He added that Europe had completely abandoned Italy to protect its land and maritime borders and that Rome should act on its own to further tighten national security and migration regulations.

Salvini first met with League ministers, state secretaries and parliamentarians behind closed doors, before holding a press conference at the headquarters of the Foreign Correspondents’ Association in Rome. He also presented the issues on the RAI evening news program.

Video footage of boat after boat made waves on social media, with it serving as a visceral reminder of the spiralling immigration crisis Europe is facing. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni ran on a campaign platform of blocking migrants and setting up a ‘naval blockade;’ however, since coming to power, she has overseen a record number of illegal migrants arriving in Italy and has even approved plans for Italy to accept over 400,000 non-European migrants this year.

Salvini stated that uniting European conservatives and moderates is the only way to ‘send the socialists home,’ referring to the European Parliament elections next year. He noted that the stakes of the elections amount to the future of Europe.

The immigration crisis could spur voters to swing to the right, but it could also backfire if Meloni’s betrayal of her anti-migrant pledges and the scenes in Lampedusa and elsewhere in Italy begin to filter to the broader Italian populace, who may start to view the ruling the conservative government with scepticism. The EU, for its part, has done little to aid Italy, and if anything, could turn the screws on Meloni’s government if she takes any significant action to stem the immigration crisis.

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Salvini also announced that the traditional annual meeting of the League, to be held in Pontida, Lombardy, will be attended by Marine Le Pen, leader of the French National Rally. Le Pen has come out in support of Salvini since the Meloni government formed, saying she is more ideologically aligned with the League party leader. Le Pen, in particular, says she rejects Meloni’s foreign policy stances.

The war in Ukraine remains another major point of contention between Salvini and Meloni, with Salvini seeking to disengage Italy from sending weapons to Ukraine, whereas Meloni has taken a more pro-Brussels stance and sought to escalate Italy’s role in the conflict.

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