Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni has asked the European Union for stricter border controls in response to the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda, the government said on Friday, May 29th.
A letter sent by Meloni to EU leaders called for border management to be put on the agenda for the upcoming European Council meeting scheduled for June 18-19. The government wrote in a statement:
The aim is to call for, with full respect for national prerogatives in the field of health protection, enhanced coordination of border surveillance through common rules for managing direct and indirect arrivals from the affected areas.
Italy has already ordered the activation of “targeted health surveillance and monitoring protocols” for travellers returning from the two African countries.
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