EU ready to help Italy on migrants says Johansson

(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 16 - The EU is ready to help Italy on migrants, European Commissioner for Home Affairs, Ylva Johansson, said Wednesday.
    On the arrivals of migrants in Italy "we are ready to give support and help in this situation. ," she said.
    And I will also have the opportunity to meet the new Italian (interior) minister (Matteo Piantedosi) tomorrow in Germany and this is perhaps something I will discuss," she said, referring to a G7 interior ministers gathering in Germany Thursday.
    Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said "our cry (for help) on migrants is starting to be heard".
    On migrants "we have posed a general problem. It is not a problem that Italy has with France, we pose a political problem, of legality", Tajani said at a press conference with Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias.
    Paris and Rome are recovering from a diplomatic spat over a French NGO run rescue ship with 230 migrants aboard that was forced to land at Toulon after being refused entry into Italian ports.
    Tajani added that the much-criticised Dublin regulation "seems tired and may now be superseded, but we cannot ignore European solidarity".
    And the FM stressed that "it seems to me that this cry from the border countries of the south is beginning to be accepted, there is willingness (to help). Problems are not solved in one meeting alone, but I found, starting from Greece, Malta and Slovenia, solidarity". (ANSA).