Italy to hire 4,000 Tunisian workers

Italy will recruit 4,000 Tunisian workers, as the two countries move to spur regular migration.

Antonio Tajani, Italy’s top diplomat and his visiting Tunisian counterpart Nabil Ammar who made the announcement Thursday in Rome said that the future recruits will be trained in Tunisia before deployment in the European country, Webdo Tunis reports.

The recruitment program dubbed “Decreto flussi” is an Italian government law that sets how many non- European citizens can enter Italy for work.

The program is inscribed in the two countries’ joint will to promote regular migration at the expense of illegal migration. Thousands of illegal migrants including Tunisians, foreign nationals mainly from Sub-Saharan African countries are using Tunisia as departing point of migrant vessels to reach the European country’s shores.

Rome has repeatedly raised the alarm over waves of vessels batting its coasts.