(Finance) – The Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, Anthony Tajanideclared that Italy on the dossier migrants he called for “a joint meeting of European foreign and interior ministers”. Italy “posed the problem of migration, it is a European problem, not Italy and France. I reiterated that for us the problem must be addressed a level community“. The meeting of Foreign Affairs Council it took place in a “calm” manner, underlined the minister, “Today’s tone was not divisive. It seems to me that there was everyone’s will to seek and find a European solution”.
“We didn’t go into detail, it was a political debate on the role that Europe must have on immigration. The issue was raised by us with great seriousness, firmness and determination, but to solve the problem, never against anyone”, added the minister. ” Seven thousand kilometers of Italian coasts are one border European, this theme must be understood by everyone. It seems to me that no one wanted to exacerbate the tone. There are those who want to accelerate and those who don’t, but the will to resolve is common”, Tajani said. NGO, Tajani invited to evaluate case by case: that “it’s not that there isn’t a rule, the NGOs have to respect certain rules, you have to see case by case, each fact is different from the other. You have to collect information and see in detail “. “As regards the agreements on the relocations let’s start keeping the rules we are waiting for better rules,” he added.
Tajani explained that he had “a long conversation” with the French Minister of European Affairs Laurence Boone – “after the Mattarella-Macron talks, the tone was evidently very serene compared to the past few days” – defined by the minister as “a very positive discussion”. The foreign minister also met the president of the EU Parliament in Brussels, Roberta metsolathe Estonian Foreign Minister, Urmas Reinsaluand the leader of the Belarusian opposition, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya.
“We are not making any distinction between an NGO vessel and any other type of vessel. There is a clear legal obligation and an unequivocal obligation to save lives at sea. That should be the case regardless of the circumstances that lead these people to be in the first place. sea,” said the spokeswoman for the European Commission, Anitta hipperanswering a question about the Italian government’s intention to issue regulations against NGO ships, in the daily briefing with the press.
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