Europe identity at risk as migrant tensions rise: Italy
"Europe needs a strategy," the prime minister said in an interview in La Stampa daily, a day after France clashed with Britain over thousands of immigrants trying to cross the Channel, and Hungary suspended a key EU rule on processing asylum claims.
"A European response is needed above all by Europe, more than Italy," he said.
"We want to fight for a different idea of values, civilisation, peace: that is what Europe was born for. If these values are ignored in front of a Mediterranean in flames, in front of children drowning, Europe loses itself," he said.
Renzi was speaking ahead of an EU summit on the immigration crisis on Thursday and Friday, which Italy hopes will see the burden of repatriating economic migrants and providing shelter to refugees being shared between the bloc. ...
Hungary's announcement on Tuesday that it has indefinitely suspended the application of a key EU asylum rule in order "protect Hungarian interests" did not bode well.
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