Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio
said after talks with his Spanish counterpart Arancha González
Laya that Italy and Spain would work towards a new European pact
on immigration.
Rome and Madrid, he said "will be in the front line for the
new European pact on immigration".
He said they had already been working for several weeks "in
this direction".
Italy and Spain are among the countries that bear the brunt
of migration from Africa.
Italy is the main landing point for the central Mediterranean
route from Libya.
Spain is the main landing point for the western Mediterranean
route from Morocco.
Italy has been trying for years to get other EU members to do
more to help it with migration.
Among other things, it is pressing for a revision to the
Dublin regulation.
This lays down that migrants must register in their country
of entry into the EU.
Other EU members use this regulation to send migrants back to
Italy.
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