Meloni Is No Chicken of the Sea – Italian Navy to Stop Migrant Boats

There are many confused and angry people in England this morning, after reading one of the headline stories in today’s Telegraph. 

They have been repeatedly told that the naval assets of one’s sovereign country cannot be used to impede the progress of migrant-stuffed rubber dinghies.

Well-informed and oft-chastised Brits who heard endless remonstrations on the subject from Dominic Cummings, the former chief advisor to Prime Minister Starmer, are now suffering a bad case of ‘Wait, WHUT?’

This is very puzzling. I’ve watched at least 4 videos now from Dominic Cummings who states, quite clearly, that we cannot use the Navy to stop the boats without falling foul of the ECHR.

So how can Italy? Something isn’t right with one of these scenarios.

— ResponsibleAdult (@CommonishGround) February 12, 2026

It especially hurts that it’s the Italians boldly forging ahead.

Then again, all they have to do is look at who’s running – or ruining, in the UK’s case – their show. Giorgia Meloni exhibits more testosterone with one of her trademark eyerolls… 

Meloni with the eye roll of the century.

She’s torn Macron apart in previous speeches so this isn’t a shock.
pic.twitter.com/fGpLOizzRM

— Rita Panahi (@RitaPanahi) June 17, 2025

…than Keir Starmer has stockpiled in his entire mewling, milquetoast, dweebish frame.

So, where rubber rafts set out from France, and the only thing that ever stops them is the occasional bad weather flare-ups in the Channel or British tourists with knives the night before they leave, ventilating the rubber, it’s a little different in Italy, even technically hamstrung as they are by sworn fealty to the European Union’s (EU) diktats.

Yesterday, the European Parliament overwhelmingly passed what is considered to be a ‘right-wing’ victory. They eased the rules for the transfer of ‘migrants’ to third countries and strengthened asylum and immigration laws. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s head must have been exploding.

The European Parliament has approved new regulations to tighten EU migration and asylum policy, including the “safe third country” concept, with 396 MEPs in favor of the changes and 226 against.

The rules will allow EU member states to deem asylum applications inadmissible if the applicant transited through a country deemed “safe” where they could have sought protection. They also facilitate the transfer of asylum seekers to third countries (outside the EU), even if the applicant has no direct connection to that country, provided a transit connection or similar link exists.

At long last, this measure also gives individual countries the authority to make decisions about the migrant situation within their own borders, something that had previously been beyond their control. It’s gobsmacking what a supposedly ‘sovereign state’ EU member has been forbidden to do.

…Moreover, “asylum tourism” will be stopped, and appealing a decision will no longer automatically halt deportation.

“No more years of living free at taxpayer expense while left-wing lawyers drag out the proceedings,” she argues.

In addition, member states will gain the right to conclude their own agreements with third countries on returning migrants. “Brussels can no longer block our negotiations; we just need to inform them before the agreement comes into force,” Zajączkowska-Hernik wrote.

States will also be able to impose restrictions on freedom and detention to prevent migrants from disappearing before deportation.

Meloni, who was an instigator in pushing to get this legislation past EU hurdles, already had her own teed up and ready to go in the Italian Parliament once the ‘done’ signal went up.

Having been previously frustrated by Von der Leyen’s intransigence and the EU’s European Human Rights Commission (EHRC) regulations on non-governmental organizations (NGOs) operating with refugees and migrants afloat in the Mediterranean, Meloni was leaving nothing to chance if the new measures passed.

Italy’s government has proposed using a “naval blockade” to block migrant boats from reaching its shores.

The bill to tighten migration rules, agreed by Giorgia Meloni’s ministers on Wednesday, provides for a temporary ban “on crossing the limit of territorial waters in cases of serious threat to public order or national security”, according to the document.

Such a threat could include “exceptional migratory pressure that could compromise the secure management of borders”, a “concrete risk” of terrorist acts or infiltration in Italy, global health emergencies and high-level international events.

Italy’s new migration package – which also includes stricter surveillance at borders and cooperation with European agencies – comes a day after the approval of the new EU pact on migration and asylum, which Rome plans to implement swiftly.

The temporary ban, which would have to be issued by the cabinet on the advice of the interior ministry, could last from an initial 30 days to a maximum of six months and would enable Italian authorities to impose a naval blockade on migrant ships trying to enter Italy’s territorial waters, under the specific conditions.

This is also going to facilitate turning the controversial Albanian migrant centers Meloni developed to use for processing and return facilities into what the Telegraph is calling ‘holding prisons.’ 

Italian courts have blocked the Albanian plan from its inception, and now Meloni sees an opportunity to use the new legislation as an end run around them. The plans had been to process up to 3000 migrants a month for return to their home countries after being scooped up at sea, and assuming the vast majority of asylum requests were rejected. The Italian court had ruled that these refugees could only be sent back if the country was considered ‘safe’ for their return. Frustratingly, the same courts had determined that the countries most of the refugees originated from were not safe to return to.

As the courts are forcing Italy to keep these people while appeals go through, Italy will be keeping the migrants in Albania once those appeals are denied.

…The conservative coalition led by Giorgia Meloni, the prime minister, is now looking at changing the purpose of the centres in Albania in order to circumvent the objections of the Italian courts.

Under the new plan, migrants who are in Italy and who have had their asylum requests turned down after a process that can take many months, would be transferred to the centres in Albania and from there repatriated.

…“The centres have to work. The fight against illegal migration must come with a clear message – illegal migrants cannot enter Italy,” said Raffaele Nevi, from Forza Italia, one of the three parties that makes up the Meloni coalition. “The government is doing everything it can to block them.” He accused the Left-wing opposition of “wanting to welcome anybody”.

The new proposed Italian regulations are also going to put a crimp in the style of the NGOs operating offshore in the narrow waters between the Italian peninsula and the coast of North Africa, one of the most popular places to launch migrant boats for Europe.

NGOs are a modern plague.

…Her government has signed accords with North African countries to limit departures, while restricting the activities of the charities that operate rescue boats in the Central Mediterranean.

The new law could further hamper the operations of the non-governmental organisations (NGOs), which only rescue a small percentage of people who arrive in Italy, with most rescued by the coastguard or navy.

The proposed bill would also expand the list of convictions for which a foreigner can be expelled from Italy.

This year, the number of migrants landing in Italy is half of what it was at the same time last year – 2000 vice 4400. Should these reforms pass, that number stands to improve vastly, and those in the country should start looking at an exit.

As far as England?

Well, Channel crossers there are still coming, dumping their identification in the water as they do.

Nothing to see here. Just illegal migrants on their way to the UK on a small boat, smiling as they throw their IDs into the sea because they know they will get treated like royalty when they arrive. pic.twitter.com/wDIUVEnmGl

— Red Pill Dispenser (@redpilldispensr) February 11, 2026

And trying a new ‘modern slavery’ tack in court to try to keep the boats coming.

Labour’s ‘one in, one out’ migrant deal with France is facing a new legal challenge.

The policy which came into operation last summer face legal action in the High Court from 16 migrants on Wednesday.

Their challenge is understood to claim the deal breaches modern slavery laws and an international treaty which sets out how governments should deal with claims of human trafficking.

The invaders do have a good thing going under Starmer and Labour.

…A further 322 migrants reached the UK on Monday, pushing the total to have come under Labour past 66,000.

Earlier this week it emerged that more migrants have arrived during Sir Keir’s time in Downing Street than under any other prime minister, overtaking the previous high of 65,811 under Boris Johnson.

Naturally, they don’t want anything or anyone messing that up.

I know Meloni would be rolling her eyes, but she’s too busy getting something done.

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