A European Union crisis committee on
migrants is needed, Premier Giuseppe Conte said in a long
interview on the front page of the Fatto Quotidiano newspaper on
Thursday.
"On Tuesday I wrote the second letter to Juncker and Tusk to
ask that what happened Sunday", that is the divvying up of
migrants, "should become the norm, no longer entrusted to phone
calls among partners, but to a cabinet or crisis committee under
the aegis of the European Commission, which will then be a
mediator among the various governments", Conte said.
At the weekend Interior Minister Matteo Salvini blocked
Italian ports to a wooden boat with 450 migrants aboard,
prompting six EU countries to eventually say they would take
some of them and allowing the Italian government to say "finally
migrants have landed in Europe and not Italy" and Salvini to say
"we're not Europe's migrant camp any more.
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