Salvini for Immigration: First agreement with the EU and then with Germany

First agreement at European level then agreement with Germany to allow Rome to accept return migrants and asylum seekers back. This was the message sent on Wednesday by Italian Interior Minister Mateo Salvini,

Italy will not enter into a bilateral agreement before the European Union takes measures to protect its goods and services. external borders and does not begin to share the weight of refugee and immigrant arrivals more equitably, Salvini said yesterday after meeting with his German counterpart, Horst Zeheffer, in Innsbruck, Austria, where the Council of Home Affairs meets informally today.

Salvinini pointed out that the terms "They want less immigrants in Germany, I want fewer immigrants in Italy, and there are 25 other European countries that have done a lot less than the l '. Italy and Germany, "he added. Salvinini, who is also vice-president of the Italian government and leader of the far-right xenophobic party Lego

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Despite Salvini's firm stance, Zeheffer badures that he expects a bilateral agreement in late July or early August

. The Zeheffer plan, presented Tuesday in Berlin, predicts that countries such as Italy and Greece will take back immigrants who have entered the EU. through their own territory and registered. The project envisages among other things the possibility of granting German financial aid to countries that host immigrants

The German Minister of the Interior has described as "legitimate Italian concern" the claim of Salvini to "pay for". easing the burden of reception by Roma migrants and refugees in the Mediterranean

Zeheffer paves the way for the implementation of much stricter policies against immigrants and refugees in Germany and more broadly in the European Union and has brought the government under Chancellor Angela Merkel to the brink of collapse, threatening to close the German border for certain categories of migrants and refugees.

Sources: AMP, DPA, AFP