Italy is less than happy with the EU’s new deal on migrants. Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi, at the EU Home Affairs Council in Luxembourg, where the EU pact on migration and asylum is being discussed, warned fellow members that the government in Rome does not like the current proposal at all: “I don’t We do not want to express a radical and clearly opposed position right now, but we have to imagine in some points the possibility of even negotiating a more sustainable European system to be implemented gradually”.
Piantedosi paved the way: “We need to start, for example, with an adequate reasonable capacity that we would like to be quantifiable, for example, at 20,000 seats with a maximum multiplier of two. Regarding the annual limit of adequate capacity, we will consider the mere notification sufficient to suspend the mandatory border procedures”. The position we intend to assume today is certainly a position of responsibility, but it is a responsibility that we also owe to Italian citizens and also to all European citizens to whom we cannot propose a reform that would in fact be doomed to failure. Thus, under the terms in which the latest negotiating proposals were presented, we believe that – comments Piantedosi – there is still much to be done”.
Source: IL Tempo
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