Across the EU, immigration being used as a 'political tool' across the political spectrum

Italy has suspended the Schengen Agreement with Spain following a migration incident in Ceuta. France twenty-four reports that geopolitical analyst Manlio Graziano views this less as meaningful policy and more as symbolic political theater. Migration, Graziano argues, has become a tool of political positioning rather than actual policy-making—and Meloni's intended audience is not other European leaders, but Italy's increasingly divided right wing, where she faces mounting pressure from even further-right parties to maintain her hardline stance.

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