In the framework of the Interfaith Meeting organised by Sant’Egidio in Berlin, the best practice of the Humanitarian Corridors was discussed within the panel dedicated to migration and European integration policies.
Together with Daniela Pompei, Sant’Egidio’s Head of Services to Migrants, the speakers included the Minister of the Interior of Belgium Annelies Verlinden, the Parliamentary Secretary of the German Federal Ministry of the Interior, Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter, the President of the Conference of European Churches Christian Krieger, the Tunisian journalist and activist Slaheddine Jourchi and the Director of Hermanos in Camino, Father Solalinde.
Presenting the Humanitarian Corridors, Daniela Pompei said: “The time has come to invest in training, to recognise qualifications more easily, to ease the tortuous obstacle of bureaucracy to obtain regular entry visas‘”. Moreover, she recalled how the European system of relocations is not working, while, on the other hand, in 2022 alone the ‘Humanitarian Corridors of the Community of Sant’Egidio’ allowed the arrival of 1163 migrants, ‘”managed and supported economically by civil society”.
Finally, the President of the Conference of European Churches also recalled that the absence of real migration policies in Europe “has prompted the Churches in France and Italy to create Humanitarian Corridors to combat traffickers and all the abuses they cause. In this way, the Churches show that integration is possible and successful“.
