Translation i am working very hard to try and make a living for what i love doing. I see my friends with full time jobs only making e700 a month. They take advantage of the fact that were young because they know that were going to shut up and take whatever money they give us. In the city of algeciras, these kids face a tough future. It feels like a bustling place, but 40 of young people cant find a job, the highest rate in the whole country. The sky high level of unemployment here in algeciras means theres huge scepticism that anything will change for the better after the European Parliaments elections in six weeks time. There are deep rooted economic problems and despite the vibrancy of this place, Success Stories are pretty hard to find. But this is one business is good at this repair company. A 230 metre long container ship, the latest vessel theyre fixing. Its meant 21 year old mario has been able to get a decentjob, something thats eluded many of his friends outside something that
Redistribute migrants across the eu. Mark lowen reports. One of europes Migration Choke Points is gasping. More than 8000 arriving in lampedusa in just three days this week, more than the whole population of the italian island. The Migrant Centre built to hold 400 was at ten times its capacity congested, chaotic, some trying any futile way to get free. Today, two new arrivals rather more planned. The italian Prime Minister, giorgio meloni, and the eu president , Ursula Von Der Leyen to see for themselves the turmoil at europes door. Italys leader is under pressure, elected with promises to curb migration. Numbers are now double the same period last year. Translation what is at stake here is the future, future that europe wants to set for itself. And it is very important to be able to tackle the huge, massive challenge challenges which lie ahead for us, especially in terms of illegal immigration. The eu president offered more help from the bloc s border force to crack the smugglers and
Winter level on record, according to satellite data. Hello. Lets get more now on the italian island of lampedusa. The European Commission president has laid out an Emergency Plan of action following the arrival of thousands of migrants. The italian Prime Minister says europes future is at stake. Earlier i spoke to giorgia linardi, from the migrant charity, sea watch. She described the Current Situation in lampedusa. The situation is peculiar because according to people on the island, this is the first time that we have really what we can call a record influx of people in such number of days. Something like this can be recalled from 2011 with the arab spring and the libyan crisis. Its peculiar that this arrival of people coincides with the discussion in the European Parliament last tuesday of the memorandum between tunisia and the eu. And we have news from tunisia about the tunisian authorities pushing migrants onto the coasts where they continue to depart from. So its a situation that
Have arrived on the island over the past three days. Thats more than lampedusas local population which is around 6 or7,000. Nearly 126. 000 migrants have arrived in italy so far this year, almost double the figure by the same date last year. Lets hear what Giorgia Meloni had to say. However, if somebody here in europe were to think that these Global Crisis that we are tackling and facing could be just solved within the italian borders, then it would be a very big, huge mistake on their side, because this massive flow of immigrants is something which requires the involvement and the responsibility by everybody to be tackled, because its going to affect certainly the border, the frontier countries, but it will soon also involve all of the other countries. So we are all involved in this. We are all involved in trying to tackle and deal with this situation. And therefore the presence of president von der leyen is a sign of awareness in this respect. The head of the European Commission, Urs