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Europe Must Grow Jobs in Africa to Limit Migration, Padoan Says
By Rene Vollgraaff May 22, 2014
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European countries must contribute to creating employment in Africa to help
limit the influx of migrants that leave the continent in search of a better
life, Italian Finance Minister Pier Carlo Padoan said.
"Migrants flee from their homes because they see no job opportunities and
because they see a threat to their security and life," Padoan said today in
an interview at the African Development Bank's annual meeting in the
Rwandan capital, Kigali. "So we as Europeans need to foster the creation of
new job opportunities in Africa."
The number of illegal border crossings into Europe on the central
Mediterranean route more than doubled to 40,304 last year, with the largest
number coming from Eritrea at 9,926, according to Frontex, the European
Union's border agency.
While Italy has benefited from migration flows, which added to the
workforce and the country's growth potential, it has created a security
risk in the nation's south, Padoan said. In October, two boats carrying
migrants sank a week apart off Lampedusa, Italy, killing more than 400
hundred people. This month, at least 17 people died and 200 people were
rescued when a boat carrying migrants from Libya en route to southern Italy
sank, British Broadcasting Corp. reported on May 12.
"We have to actively support the establishment of institutions that keep
security, strengthen democracy and therefore make life easier for people
and make weaker the incentive to move," Padoan said.
To contact the reporter on this story: Rene Vollgraaff in Johannesburg at
rvollgraaff_at_bloomberg.net
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