The new Italian government is timidly trying to shift its predecessors’ migration policy, even if its sometimes contradictory initiatives reveal some political uncertainty. On the one hand, on 9 September the new Italian Interior Minister Luciana Lamorgese decided to forbid the access to Italian waters to the German vessel Alan Kurdi using the “security law” recently approved by his predecessor Matteo Salvini. On the other hand, on 14 September Italy opened its ports to the  Ocean Viking vessel, which disembarked 82 rescued migrants in Lampedusa. Italian FM Luigi Di Maio declared that “the safe port was assigned because the EU agreed to our request to take most of the migrants” and added that this decision did not mark a return to a policy of open ports. In fact, most of the disembarked migrants will be redistributed to Germany, France, Portugal and Luxembourg. French Interior Minister Christopher Castaner commented on the issue saying that “we now need to agree on a genuine temporary European mechanism”. At the end of the month, EU Interior Ministers will meet in Malta to discuss a mechanism’s proposal.