Solidarity on migrants in the European
Union has failed with just 1,500 migrants redistributed,
Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi told his EU counterparts in
Luxembourg Thursday.
In the face of a "dramatic increase in flows in the central
Mediterranean", the redistribution of migrants among other
European countries has been less than 1,500 people, which is
well below the limited commitments made and is a symptom of the
"failure of the principle of solidarity", he told a round table
at the Home Affairs Council.
In Italy, he said, the memory of the Cutro tragedy where 94
migrants died on the Calabrian coast "is still alive",
Piantedosi said, and the hotspot on the Sicilian island of
Lampedusa has turned into "a migrant management centre with
heavy local implications."
Therefore, Piantedosi said, "strong overseas action by the
Union" is needed to tackle the migration problem.
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