the emergency “today there is no” but would return soon, the island that Matteo Renzi yesterday called “the heart of Europe”, not in a geographical sense but “spiritual” .For this yesterday the Prime Minister has flown surprise in Lampedusa, accompanied by the Minister for Infrastructure Graziano Delrio, to meet the island’s mayor, Giusi Nicolini and to ask that Europe recognize the island as a “free zone.” Granting recognition, he pointed out, “it would be a refund ‘.Lampedusa is” place of border “, the first landing place of migrants arriving by sea, Italian outpost just a step from the coast of Libya; in Renzi” should not be the periphery of’ Italy, but to become a central place “, because” it is the point at which all citizens have shown to all other Europeans what must be done with great humanitarian values. ” It is the first visit of Premier Renzi from Lampedusa. Previously he had come from the island’s newly elected secretary of the Democratic Party, in December 2013. “The President of the Council asked to be near us and support with concrete actions the island’s economy – the mayor Nicolini after meeting -. We are here, we live off tourism and fishing, and yet we have welcomed hundreds of thousands of people. What we need is to reduce the distance and marginalization from the rest of the country and Europe. It needs a ransom of the border. ” Request welcomed by Renzi: “The state must help out the community of Lampedusa, also to tell the island for what it is: not a suburb far from the eyes of Europe, but a place that has combined the beauty of the places with the of its inhabitants, who have made it possible to save thousands of lives. Now it must be recognized for what it is: the door of Europe, but also a place where to live well “.RR
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