Overview

• Meloni conducted unannounced missions to Tunisia on July 31 and Turkey on August 1 to reinforce joint efforts against irregular migration and criminal trafficking under the Mattei Plan.
• She has proposed an Istanbul summit that would bring Italy, Turkey and Libya’s Government of National Unity together to align economic, energy and migration strategies.
• Libya’s interim government initiated targeted air strikes in western Libya this week to dismantle smuggling and drug trafficking networks.
• Interior Ministry data show that 90 percent of the 36,545 migrants who reached Italy in 2025 departed from Libyan shores, a 9.1 percent increase from the same period last year.
• Opposition figures criticized Meloni’s Tunisia agreements, highlighting the 50-hour detention of a vessel carrying 90 shipwreck survivors as a humanitarian oversight.