The following video shows excerpts from a press conference held by Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini during a G6 interior ministers’ meeting in Lyon on October 8.
Many thanks to FouseSquawk for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:
Video transcript:
00:28 | And therefore, we do it alone. I have had bilateral meetings with the Polish minister, | |
00:32 | with the representatives of the American government, | |
00:35 | with the British minister, therefore | |
00:38 | If Brussels doesn’t take care of it, we’ll take care of it alone, making agreements two on two. | |
00:43 | I have also spoken with my German colleague. A plane that was supposed to arrive from Berlin this week | |
00:48 | will not arrive. And then we talk about everything. | |
00:52 | I repeat: it is important that Italy no longer be considered | |
00:56 | a refugee camp, as was happening up to a few months ago. | |
01:15 | Yes. It is a motive I don’t understand, why Macron | |
01:19 | accused me and the Italian government of racism and egoism. | |
01:24 | All of the ministers who were at the table today supported the Italian idea | |
01:28 | that economic refugees cannot be accepted in Europe, | |
01:32 | that in Europe are arriving regularly, legally those who are escaping war. | |
01:36 | The most recent data I can give you for Italy is that from Naples, which I visited | |
01:40 | last week, where from July to today, of the hundreds of applications examined | |
01:46 | they have recognized the right to remain in Italy for eight persons out of 100. | |
01:50 | Eight out of 100. Therefore that means that we have interrupted a business | |
01:54 | which surely has enriched some, | |
01:58 | but impoverishes Europe, and if Macron is on the same line, | |
02:02 | let’s fight the same battle. Perhaps he’ll occasionally | |
02:08 | re-open the border at Ventimiglia and stop insulting us. | |
02:15 | One thing at a time. It is now October. It is clear that in May, finally 500 million Europeans | |
02:19 | will be able to change the history of Europe. | |
02:23 | But for the time being it is important for me to change the history of Italy. | |
02:27 | Then in May, we’ll think about it. For certain, the socialists and the left will go home. | |
02:31 | This is for sure. | |
02:45 | Today, on the table, more than one colleague invoked the Australian model | |
02:49 | as a model for stopping the flow, which is exactly the model | |
02:53 | on which I am working, on which the Italian government, therefore I must say, | |
02:57 | while up to four months ago we were | |
03:01 | “racists, “egoists”, “populists”, “ignorant chauvinists”, | |
03:04 | the Italian model for handling immigration | |
03:08 | and closing the ports when needed is now instructive. | |
03:17 | Very good. Sustaining [unintelligible] of immigration we are preparing a common mission | |
03:21 | in Nigeria, which is for Italy, one of the most problematic countries, | |
03:25 | because almost 60,000 immigrants have arrived from Nigeria in recent years, | |
03:29 | and we have succeeded in expelling only a few hundred. | |
03:33 | Therefore to have serious and concrete agreements with Nigeria, with the help | |
03:37 | of the European Commission, for Italy and for the Italian government, will be important. |
Buy a Vespa. Italy could use the business, and this product is well made. The Primitives should stick to living on Merkel’s good German taxes.
IIRC, a Vespa doesn’t require a driver’s license. Maybe that’s why it is becoming the vehicle of choice of marauding criminals.