歐洲難民危機(jī)有了一張全新面孔，那就是31歲的德國(guó)船長(zhǎng)卡羅拉·拉科特,。由于違反意大利的零容忍“閉港”政策,，拉科特于6月底被捕。

在圍觀者潮水般的噓聲中,，梳著臟辮的海洋觀察3號(hào)（Sea Watch 3）救援船船長(zhǎng)拉科特在地中海小島蘭佩杜薩島港口被全副武裝的意大利警察逮捕。拉科特將被罰款5萬歐元,，而且有可能入獄,，原因是她將40名身體虛弱的難民帶上了岸，這些難民在6月的大多數(shù)時(shí)間里一直在海上飄蕩,。

這位年輕德國(guó)船長(zhǎng)指揮的船只懸掛著荷蘭國(guó)旗,。對(duì)意大利和歐盟來說，本次逮捕行動(dòng)恰恰出現(xiàn)在一個(gè)最不愉快的時(shí)刻,。就在逮捕拉科特之前的幾個(gè)小時(shí)里,，歐盟委員會(huì)一直在設(shè)法安排一項(xiàng)協(xié)議，以免發(fā)生外交糾紛,，具體內(nèi)容是在五個(gè)歐洲國(guó)家之間分配移民,。但此項(xiàng)示好舉措未能阻止蘭佩杜薩島港口的那一幕最終上演。

在日本的G20峰會(huì)上,，意大利總理朱塞佩·孔特在拉科特被捕后的幾小時(shí)里努力解決這一問題,，但他的表態(tài)幾乎未能緩解歐洲的地緣政治緊張局勢(shì)。幾個(gè)小時(shí)后，德國(guó)對(duì)本國(guó)公民被捕表示憤慨,。德國(guó)外長(zhǎng)?？啤ゑR斯專門批評(píng)了意大利的冷酷做法。他在推特上寫道：“拯救生命是人道主義責(zé)任,。意大利司法部門應(yīng)該迅速說明指控理由,。”

與此同時(shí),，在意大利和德國(guó),，為德國(guó)難民救援組織海洋觀察打這場(chǎng)官司而發(fā)起的幾項(xiàng)眾籌活動(dòng)近幾天獲得了100多萬歐元捐款，這對(duì)Facebook達(dá)人,、兼任意大利副總理的馬泰奧·薩爾維尼來說略有些公關(guān)災(zāi)難的意味,。

幾周來，海洋觀察組織的故事每天都會(huì)出現(xiàn)在社交媒體和新聞上,，甚至傳到了梵提岡——教皇方濟(jì)各也站出來為該組織說話,。上述最新事件有可能讓歐盟進(jìn)一步分裂為左右兩派，讓顯然支持拉科特的民間社會(huì)團(tuán)體和薩爾維尼等通過打擊前往意大利的大量移民而上臺(tái)的強(qiáng)硬派對(duì)立起來,。

薩爾維尼對(duì)此事的結(jié)果可能也不是完全滿意,。拉科特于6月底在蘭佩杜薩島遭逮捕時(shí)，歐盟各國(guó)領(lǐng)導(dǎo)人正在布魯塞爾緊張地討價(jià)還價(jià),，目的是爭(zhēng)奪歐盟主要領(lǐng)導(dǎo)職位,，包括歐洲央行行長(zhǎng)馬里奧·德拉吉的繼任者。除歐洲央行行長(zhǎng)外,，歐盟委員會(huì)主席,、歐洲議會(huì)議長(zhǎng)以及歐盟理事會(huì)主席人選均有待確定。以往,，成員國(guó)會(huì)在此類磋商中擱置爭(zhēng)議,，交換利益并結(jié)成聯(lián)盟，以便讓他們最青睞的人得到任命,。

而意大利可能比以往任何時(shí)候都需要布魯塞爾的朋友,。由于一直未能遵守歐盟預(yù)算政策，歐盟可能對(duì)意大利罰款35億歐元并要求其采取更嚴(yán)格的開支措施,。薩爾維尼則反復(fù)敦促歐盟方面做出讓步,，因?yàn)樗Ｍ麨橐獯罄髽I(yè)和個(gè)人減稅。去年大部分時(shí)間里,，意大利預(yù)算問題都一直處于僵持狀態(tài),，而且有時(shí)會(huì)引起全球股市波動(dòng)并讓所謂的意大利-德國(guó)債券“風(fēng)險(xiǎn)利差”大幅上升。

本周一上午,，該利差基本未變,，但主要原因是市場(chǎng)相信另一位意大利人——?dú)W洲央行行長(zhǎng)德拉吉將在余下的幾個(gè)月任期內(nèi)降低利率并啟動(dòng)新一輪債券購(gòu)買行動(dòng),。這兩項(xiàng)措施有可能成為薩爾維尼及其執(zhí)政聯(lián)盟伙伴的救命稻草。（財(cái)富中文網(wǎng)）

譯者：Charlie

審校：夏林

Europe’s migrant crisis has a fresh new face: a 31-year-old German ship captain who was arrested at the end of June for defying Italy’s zero-tolerance “closed ports” policy.

With a cascade of boos pouring down from onlookers, the dreadlocked Carola Rakete, captain of the aid boat Sea Watch 3, was taken into custody by armed Italian officers at a port on the tiny Mediterranean island of Lampedusa. Rakete faces a fine of 50,000 euros and possible jail time for bringing 40 ailing migrants, stranded at sea for much of June, to shore.

The timing of Italy’s arrest of the young German, captaining a Dutch-flagged ship, couldn’t have

come at a more fraught moment for Italy and the European Union. In the hours before her arrest, the European Commission had tried to broker a deal to avoid a diplomatic row, proposing that the migrants be distributed between five European countries. That olive branch failed to diffuse the showdown at the port, however.

At the G20 Summit in Japan, Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte scrambled to address the matter in the hours after her arrest, but his comments did little to lower the geopolitical tensions back home. Hours later, Germany expressed its indignation with the arrest of one of its own. Foreign Minister Heiko Maas was particularly critical of Italy’s heavy-handed approach. "It's a humanitarian duty to save lives," he wrote on Twitter. "It is on the Italian judiciary to swiftly clarify the accusations."

Meanwhile, separate crowdfunding appeals to finance Sea Watch’s legal defense launched in Italy and Germany in recent days raised more than 1 million euros, a bit of a public relations black-eye for Italy’s anti-immigration government led by the Facebook-savvy vice premier Matteo Salvini.

For weeks, the Sea Watch saga has played out daily on social media, in the press and even in the halls of the Vatican where Pope Francis weighed in to defend the aid group. The latest episode risks further dividing the bloc down a Left-Right fault line, pitting civil society groups, clearly in the corner of Rakete, against hardliners such as Salvini who’s staked his rise to power on cracking down on mass migration reaching Italian shores.

Salvini also couldn’t have been all that pleased with the outcome. The ordeal in Lampedusa occurred as European leaders met in Brussels at the end of June in an intense fit of horse-trading to secure the bloc’s top positions, including a successor to European Central Bank President Mario Draghi. That, and the presidencies of the European Commission, Parliament, Council are all up for grabs. Traditionally, member states put aside their differences during these negotiations, trading favors and striking alliances to get their preferred candidate the plumb assignments.

And Italy, more than ever, could use some friends in Brussels. The country has run afoul of European Union budget rules, and is facing a possible 3.5 billion euro fine plus demands to introduce more austere spending measures. Salvini, meanwhile, has repeatedly urged Brussels to back off as he hopes to deliver tax cuts to Italian businesses and taxpayers. This impasse over Italy’s budget has raged for much of the past year, at times roiling global stock markets and sending the so-called “risk spread” between Italian and German bonds soaring.

On Monday morning, the spread was little moved, but that’s mainly because the markets believe another Italian – ECB president Draghi – is poised to cut rates and re-introduce a new tranche of bond-buying in his remaining months, two moves that would serve as a lifeline to Salvini and his governing coalition partners in Rome.