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Italy not place to bring all migrants - Tajani

Why doesn't Berlin fund NGOs that take them to Germany?

Redazione Ansa

(ANSA) - ROME, SEP 26 - Italy is not the place to bring all migrants to, Deputy Premier and Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said Tuesday.
    He was speaking about a German NGO, SOS Humanity, that is being funded by Berlin and which rescues migrants at sea and takes them to Italy.
    "The problem with Germany is related to funding NGOs that then have to bring migrants to Italy. Why don't they fund NGOs that bring migrants to Germany? Italy cannot be chosen by the rest of Europe as the place to take all migrants," Tajani told Tg4.
    Germany is also funding an Italian NGO, the Sant'Egidio Community, that helps migrants on land in Italy.
    Premier Giorgia Meloni has voiced "astonishment" that Germany is funding the NGOs, while Deputy Premier and Transport Minister Matteo Salvini has called it a "disgrace and a hostile act" while the deputy leader of the latter's rightwing anti-migrant League party has said Germany is using migrants as it once used its (Nazi) armies to destabilise neighbouring States. (ANSA).
   

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