nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20200414-152958-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 200414s2020||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20200414-152958-0 doi eng 342 23 Keller, Vera Magali Author aut Not a Safe Place? Italy’s Decision to Declare Its Ports Unsafe under International Maritime Law Keller, Vera Magali Verfassungsblog 2020-04-14 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier In an unprecedented move, the Italian government has declared Italy’s ports “unsafe” due to the COVID-19-pandemic. It did so by issuing an executive decree late Tuesday last week, seemingly in response to the rescue of 150 shipwrecked by the Sea-Eye’s Alan Kurdi. This is not the first time that the Italian government has used decrees to close its borders for sea-rescue ships. However, given the extraordinary circumstances of this case in the midst of the on-going Corona-crisis and the novel argument made by the Italian government, the decision warrants closer examination. funded by the government CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Coronavirus European Union International Maritime Law Seenotrettung Schöler, Florian Author aut Goldoni, Marco Author aut Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/not-a-safe-place/ raw object