German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is
blocking German's eastern boders to migrants but is allegedly
facilitating their arrival in Italy by funding migrant-rescue
NGOs operating in the central Mediterranean, Defence Minister
Guido Crosetto said on X Sunday after Scholz announced
additional controls at the border with Austria and other joint
ones with Switzerland and the Czech Republic on their side.
Rome is in a spat with Berlin over German funded NGO run migrant
rescue ships in the Med, with Italy saying that the migrants
should be taken to Germany.
Berlin currently funds 10 of the 19 German NGO ships, while also
funding an Italian one helping migrants on Italian soil.
Crosetto said on Scholz's policies on X: "You try to stop
immigration in one part of Europe and facilitate its transport
in another. Coherent and ingenious".
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