Meloni and government delegation visits Tunisia

Italian prime minister Meloni with a ministerial delegation composed by the minister of home affairs Piantedosi, the minister of University and Scientific Research Bernini, and by the vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Cirielli (supported by the ex Italian Ambassador in Tunisia and now prime minister advisor for foreign affair) met Tunisian president Saied and their counterpart ministers.

Three agreements were finally signed:

– Italy will support Tunisian State budget (no further details now)

– Italian investment for small and medium Tunisian enterprises through the Tunisian Central Bank (no further details now)

– Implementing of more University exchanges.

While the meeting were going on in the presidential palace, a protest sit-in organized by FTDES (Tunisian Federation of Social and Economic Rights) took place in front of the Italian embassy.

The spokesperson of the organization, Romdhane Ben Amor, denounced Meloni visit and the Italian attempts to force Tunisia to accepts more expulsion of migrants from Italy to Tunisia, the inhuman conditions in the Italian migrants centers in Italy (CPR) where also exposed.

Many banners about migration were showed and also a banner criticizing the Piano Mattei (Italian big investment plan to other countries) were exposed as well as an attempt to steal Tunisian national resources: