Premier Paolo Gentiloni said
Wednesday that centre right and rightwing parties' promises to
stop migrant flows after the March 4 general election were
"unlikely" to be realised.
"Everyone is free to tell you what they want, especially in
an election campaign.
"But it is very highly unlikely to promise to eliminate these
migrant flows," he said.
"The challenge is not to promise to eliminate these flows but
to turn them from phenomena managed by criminal networks into
safe, secure, manageable and compatible phenomena, and even
useful for our society".
The anti-migrant League is among the parties that say they
will stop illegal immigration.
Gentiloni said that migrant flows were useful to the European
Union but they must be carefully managed.
"Italy and Europe need regular and managed migratory flows,"
he said at the foreign affairs institute ISPI, receiving an
award named after former ISPI chief and former ANSA president,
the late Boris Biancheri.
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