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Germany has announced Sunday that it will host 50 of the 450 migrants rescued from the fishing boat this week in the Mediterranean.
Migrants who sought to cross the Mediterranean Sea aboard a fishing boat from the Libyan coast are still on board the Italian Coast Guard. "Germany and Italy have agreed that Germany will host 50 migrants in this case, with further negotiations on the intensification of bilateral cooperation on asylum" said a spokeswoman for the German government. Migrants who sought to cross the Mediterranean by a wooden fishing boat from the Libyan coast are still on board the Italian coastguard and aboard the Frontex European Union (EU), which took them. Felipe Pbadolas / SIPA / SCANPIX
Italian Prime Minister Juozep Konte announced Saturday night that France and Malta had promised to host each of the 50 migrants.
Felipe Pbadolas / SIPA / SCANPIX Italian Interior Minister Salvini, who heads the right-wing party "Liga", has banned Italian ports from hosting non-governmental organizations to rescue migrants in the Mediterranean and accused these organizations of helping smugglers deliver migrants to Europe
. Germany has received nearly one million asylum applications in 2016 and 2017, with Italy ranking second with around 250,000 asylum seekers.
