Austrian Interior Minister
Herbert Kickl said Tuesday that Vienna considers Italy to be "a
strong ally", adding that he will speak to his Italian
counterpart Matteo Salvini later in the day.
Entering a justice and home affairs council in Luxembourg,
Kickl added that, if there is no agreement on the proposed
reform of the Dublin regulation, he would "announce something
like a small Copernican revolution" on asylum policy at an
informal meeting of interior ministers in Innsbruck in
September, which will be held under the Austrian EU duty
presidency.
Salvini, who is also deputy premier and leader of the
rightwing, anti-migrant League party, said Monday that the new
Italian government intends to work with Hungarian Prime Minister
Viktor Orbán's administration to reform the European Union.
"Today I had a cordial telephone call with Hungarian Prime
Minister Viktor Orbán," Salvini told a rally at Fiumicino, near
Rome, late on Monday.
"We'll work to change the rules of this European Union".
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