Migrants: Germany reactivates solidarity mechanism

(ANSA) - ROME, SEP 16 - Germany is reactivating the voluntary solidarity mechanism established at the EU level in 2022 under which it receives asylum seekers from Italy in view of the massive number arrivals in Lampedusa, DPA reported German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser announcing on television late on Friday.
    This week Berlin suspended the mechanism and said it would only resume when Germany can once again transfer asylum seekers arriving on its territory back to Italy on the basis of the Dublin Regulation mandating that asylum applications be processed in the country of first entry.
    On Friday Faeser said the mechanism had been suspended because "Italy has shown no willingness to take people back through the Dublin procedure", but she immediately added that: "now, of course, it is clear that we also fulfill our obligation of solidarity". (ANSA).