Salvini wants to strengthen security at Italian land borders
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Interior Minister Matteo Salvini on Friday said “we are controlling our borders by sea, and we also want to control them by land with all means necessary,” referring to a proposed fence to cut off the Balkan Route on the Slovenia border.
Salvini spoke on the phone with his Slovenian counterpart Boštjan Poklukar to discuss migration and enhancing cooperation in this field.
According to the Austrian press agency APA, Salvini also talked today about measures to beef up the control of the Balkan route with Croatian Interior Minister Davor Božinović.
Salvini did not mention the fence, but said he was working with Fruili Governor Massimilano Fedriga, who proposed on earlier this week, on border security.
“Now at work with Governor Fedriga, the aim is to have more men and means to seal the border with Slovenia and definitively stop the entry of clandestine immigrants,” he tweeted.”I’ll keep you informed!”
Slovenian parliamentary parties and MEPs are critical of Italy’s announcement it could set up “physical barriers” on the border with Slovenia if Slovenian-Italian border police patrols, introduced on 1 July, do not result in fewer illegal migrants. The patrols, on the other hand, continue to divide Slovenian politics.
