Italy - Africa summit: Meloni to unveil plan to expand Italian influence in Africa, curb immigration - video Dailymotion

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00:00 to Italy where the right-wing Prime Minister Giorgia Maloney has unveiled her latest plan to reduce

00:04 clandestine boats arriving from Africa. She's describing it as a non-predatory approach to reducing

00:10 migration which has increased sharply despite her government's proposal back in 2022 to make it the number one pledge to sort out.

00:18 Seema Gupta explains what's going on from Rome.

00:21 Miss Maloney's

00:24 presentation is basically she talks about how this plan is non-predatory,

00:29 non-paternalistic and also

00:31 non-charitable either. It's about looking at Italy and Africa as equal partners at least. That's how she puts it. Now today

00:39 we expect to see some 50 heads of government and state from Africa as well as EU leaders including the Commission and Council presidents,

00:47 leaders of the UN agencies of the World Bank and the IMF all gathered at the Senate today to discuss about this approach.

00:55 It's important to remember that Italy is holding the presidency of the G7 and

01:00 Maloney for her part has said that Africa will be front and center of that

01:04 presidency this year and this is the big kickoff of her so-called dubbed Mate plan. Now Mate because it's named after

01:11 Enrico Mate, he's the founder of Italy's energy giant Eni in the 1950s. Now exactly how it's going to work

01:20 we'll find out the details, but in essence, it's about Italy serving as a transit hub for African energy

01:27 while stimulating investment in an effort to curb illegal migration across the Mediterranean. Of course

01:34 therefore there's that political element as you also alluded to Miss Maloney's far-right Brothers of Italy party

01:41 saying when they came in they wanted to curb immigration, but we saw the numbers increase in

01:48 2023 as opposed to 2022 in terms of migrants coming from Africa to the European continent.

01:54 Now they'll be discussing various issues such as cooperation in the economic sphere,

01:59 infrastructure, food security as well as migration, but of course a lot about energy that really is the focus here

02:07 tapping into those African resources for Europe.

Italy - Africa summit: Meloni to unveil plan to expand Italian influence in Africa, curb immigration

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