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Al-Araby
The media in Tunisia and Italy reported news about a migration agreement reached on August 17, 2020, following the visit of the Italian foreign and interior ministers, accompanied by European commissioners Ylva Johansson and Oliver Varhelyi. Yet, specific details of the deal were few and far between. Last October, civil society organisations in Italy and Tunisia asked their governments to be granted access to official documents connected with the recent agreement between the two countries on the issue of migration, saying that “the outsourcing of border control leads to systematic violations o…