"It's irresponsible to close the borders"

Putting Schengen in danger, as well as the Erasmus program, "is not responsible". To say that is Sergio Mattarella who met today the President of Estonia, Kersti Kaljulaid, and talked about the issue of " immigration underground who threatens to break Europe.

"In the last 12 months, migrant arrivals in Italy have decreased by 85%," said the President of the Republic, " The pressure of the migratory phenomenon has decreased: this should allow all governments, Without yielding to the emotional, governing the phenomenon is possible and there is a duty to do it.Talk about closing the borders is not rational but responds to the emotionality undergone or excited then that all would allow a greater rationality in the governance of this phenomenon "

On the Council of the EU who addressed the issue, Mattarella is optimistic:" The EU Council last week was not the seat of operational decisions, but came a series of encouraging political indications "he said," It will now be necessary to give them a concretization with operational decisions. and I am convinced that there is the possibility of reaching a positive and positive agreement. What interests me the most is what the EU must do from now on to deal with the migratory phenomenon together. The result of the European Council is encouraging because it has become aware that the problem is a whole of the Union and not of individual countries and must be solved by sharing responsibilities ".