The European Union must take a collective stand to tackle migrant trafficking at its source in African countries, Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi said on Wednesday (April 22).<br /><br /> Renzi said the EU should have a more visible role in sub-Saharan countries where migrants originate. His passionate address followed a moment of silence in the Italian parliament to honour the hundreds of people who lost their lives at sea fleeing hunger, division and war. <br /><br /> “When someone is ready to risk their own life, when someone puts their life at risk because they have to flee a situation where people are being beheaded around them, discouraging these people from fleeing is not done with a declaration of principals, it is done through the offices of the UN High Representative of Refugees in Niger and Sudan. It is done by directly intervening in these places….”<br /><br /> Renzi, speaking one day ahead of an extraordinary summit of EU leaders on the crisis, said he was very optimistic that the bloc could “chang
