Italy would like to understand the
German migrant position as Berlin closes its land borders while
funding migrant rescue NGOs in the Med, Foreign Minister Antonio
Tajani said Sunday.
Berlin has bolstered protection at its eastern borders while
funding 10 of the 10 international migrant rescue ships in the
central Med.
Tajani, who is also deputy premier, said at the conclusion of a
rally of his centre-right Forza Italia (FI) party honouring late
leader and three-time ex-premier Silvio Berlusconi in Paestum
south of Naples: "The German chancellor says what he wants.
"That is secondary immigration, we have a primary immigration
problem.
"We have a strategy. We have to look at strategy, at European
solidarity.
"In Germany they are in the election campaign, but there is an
important problem to solve, it is not just the election
campaign. "We would like to understand what the German position
is, it is not clear what they say.
"We will evaluate, we will see, the migrants who want to go to
Germany it is not that they have to send them to Italy".
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