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tired and may now be superseded, but we cannot ignore European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".
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