As the Assad regime is crumbling, it's a good moment to remind people about what the current Italian government plus 7 other EU governments were trying to do until recently (normalising relations with Assad to send migrants back to "safe zones" in Syria).

https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-migration-deportation-syria-bashar-assad-refugees-italy-giorgia-meloni-far-right-anti-immigrant-parties/