{"id":111962,"date":"2020-10-08T09:31:18","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T07:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asgi.it\/sciabaca-oruka\/what-is-the-content-of-the-recent-agreement-between-tunisia-and-italy-italian-and-tunisian-associations-present-foi-freedom-of-information-requests\/"},"modified":"2025-01-07T13:00:31","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T12:00:31","slug":"what-is-the-content-of-the-recent-agreement-between-tunisia-and-italy-italian-and-tunisian-associations-present-foi-freedom-of-information-requests","status":"publish","type":"sciabaca-oruka","link":"https:\/\/www.asgi.it\/en\/sciabaca-oruka\/what-is-the-content-of-the-recent-agreement-between-tunisia-and-italy-italian-and-tunisian-associations-present-foi-freedom-of-information-requests\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the content of the recent agreement between Tunisia and Italy? Italian and Tunisian associations present FOI (Freedom of Information) requests"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The associations raise the alarm: “border control externalization produces systematic violations of migrants’ rights”<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

ASGI (Association for Juridical Studies on Migration), FTDES <\/a>(Tunisian Forum for Economic and Social Rights) and ASF<\/a> (Lawyers Without Borders) have submitted FOI requests to the Italian and Tunisian governments after the non-publication of the content of the agreement concluded on August 17, 2020. According to press reports the agreement envisages the Italian economic support of 11 million euros for the strengthening of border control systems and training of security forces aimed at both preventing the departure of migrants and intercepting vessels in Tunisian territorial waters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On August 17, the Italian Interior and Foreign Affairs Ministers, accompanied by the European Commissioner for Home Affairs and the Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighborhood Policy, met in Tunisia with the President of the Tunisian Republic, the Prime Minister in charge, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs ad interim to agree on financing arrangements and mutual commitments. One of the novelties in this case concerns the explicit reference to the conditionality of aid: Minister Di Maio threatened <\/a>to suspend the 6.5 million euro funding for development cooperation in Tunisia in order to encourage the country to intensify its efforts to control departures from its coasts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The agreement is based on assumptions considered false by the undersigned associations:<\/p>\n\n\n\n