I do agree with this also

To be fair not that the current italian government is doing a great job at not being called fascists

Italian here to give some background:

Everything regarding this nonsense is Piantedosi (our intern affairs minister) trying to pulling a dick size contest. He is the absolute worse and it's a disgrace that such a piece of garbage is in charge of such a delicate task, but bashing Italy for this is pretty easy when no further research is done on why the situation is like this:

- Right wing politicans heavily used the immigration problem in theyr campaign to criticize both the left wing and the European Union, contributing to the victory in the last elections

- Italy is currently having an immigration crysis with both the augmented flux of people due to the war coming both from the sea and the balkan route with little to no collaboration coming from both the EU and neighbour Nations

- The recent disaster from Cruto is being wheaponized with theese bullshit laws coming from Italy government, where a Turkey ship came to Italy instead of Greece due to the more aggressive coast guards (go check it out, it's onw of the worst recent events)

Even the recent bash with France where they accepted 240 of our immigrants, but sent back to theyr origin Nations a lot of them contributed in making the Italy situation even harsher

The whole EU is not giving the right justice to this problem. Remember to always check the whole situation before pointing your finger