Enough of Sicily being the refugee camp of Europe. I will not stand by and do nothing while there are landings after landings of migrants.
We will work to modify and remove some European parameters, but regarding the euro, I remain convinced that the single currency is destined to end: not because I want it but because the facts, common sense, and the real economy dictate it.
Why on earth would free people remain prisoners in a cage of absurd laws and regulation, with rigid constraints that humiliate the true needs of the people and their country?
Once the monetary sovereignty is retaken, one can make a last attempt to renegotiate all of the treaties: Maastricht, Schengen, Dublin, and Lisbon.
The final objective is not to distribute the migrants among various European countries but to prevent them from entering Europe and from departing from Africa. We need to intervene in Africa. We need to have a Marshall Plan for Africa to improve living conditions in the countries of origin.
We need deportation centres.
Maybe in Luxembourg there's a need for new immigration, but in Italy, there's a need to help people have children.
Who would have thought we would be part of a winning coalition in Molise and Sicily? That we would win in places like Siena, Viterbo, Pisa, and Terni?
The catechism says rich nations should welcome strangers within the limits of the possible. In Italy, we have reached the limits of the possible.
At school, everything was left v. right, communists and fascists; what interested me was the discussion of identity, autonomy, federalism, and community.
If anyone in the E.U. thinks Italy should keep being a landing point and refugee camp, they have misunderstood.
Italians think with their heads.
I would like free movement within the E.U. as a result of us protecting external borders.
Italians first!
Exporting this Western model of democracy in countries that don't want it or are not ready creates disasters.
Listening to the people, being a minister that goes to the cities, to the squares, to the stations, to the hospitals, for me is a duty and a pleasure.
People want identity, security, and jobs.
Macron talks about values, but he doesn't recognize the values itself, and therefore, they have no lessons to give to Italy.
With nice words, we never obtained anything.
We are for pension reform, jobs, the flat tax, and justice reforms.
