![]() ![]() Instead of agreeing on anything other than the need to agree, Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, a puppet for Matteo Salvini demanded the EU scrap the “Dublin Principle” which says migrants must apply for asylum in the first country in which they land. The Financial Times reports Italy Disrupts ‘Summit to Save Merkel’. They flat out reject taking in migrants in general. There are far more points and times in the article but that gives an idea of how well the meeting didn’t go.īy the way, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia all refused to attend the meeting. The 5-Stars, who are in a ruling coalition with the anti-migrant League party, penned a blog Sunday titled “The migrant hypocrisy sinks Europe” as EU leaders met in Brussels on migration.Italy’s populist 5-Star Movement is demanding that European countries step up and actually take action to deal with hundreds of thousands of migrants on the continent, warning that the future of Europe is at stake.Malta’s home affairs minister, Michael Farrugia, and Italy’s transport minister, Danilo Toninelli, engaged in a Twitter war of words Sunday over which country was being more “inhuman” about the fate of the Lifeline and its passengers.Tensions between Italy and Malta are flaring anew over the fate of a German rescue ship with 234 migrants aboard that has been denied a port to disembark them.She said: “Italy wants to leave the migrants in the hands of Libya, where they torture, rape and enslave” migrants.Barcelona Mayor Ada Colao, who previously offered Barcelona as a port when Italy refused entry to another aid group’s rescue ship, repeated her willingness to take in the migrants and urged Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez to intervene to allow Proactiva’s ship to “save lives.”.Italy’s firebrand interior minister is defending Italy’s decision to ask the Libyan coast guard to rescue an estimated 1,000 migrants without the help of aid groups.As the meeting got started, several countries threw their weight behind the idea of setting up migrant reception centers in Africa to screen asylum-seekers before they depart for Europe.He says: “Everyone agreed on the need to have a European vision a common position on a common challenge.”.Sanchez told reporters that Sunday’s meeting involving the heads of at least 16 EU countries were “frank and open,” but “we don’t have any concrete consequences or conclusions.”. ![]() Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez says emergency talks European leaders held on migration didn’t yield any decisions but that the participants agreed they need to work together on the politically fraught issue.The Washington Post reports No Decisions at ‘Frank and Open’ Migration Talks.
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