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Italian PM: Europe cannot close its eyes to migrant crisis

2015-06-15 37 Dailymotion

A group of African migrants have been left languishing on rocks overlooking the Italian coast, after being turned back at the French border. <br /><br /> They are stuck in the Italian town of Ventimiglia, close to the French Riviera. <br /><br /> As Italy faces a migrant crisis, a tightening of crossing controls by its neighbours is pitting Rome against Europe.<br /><br /> “Either this is a European problem and we solve it together. Or if it’s just Italy’s problem, because Europe closes it eyes, then we’re in a position to face it,” said Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi. <br /><br /> “But I say so with the disappointment of somebody who believes that Europe is one great house of values.”<br /><br /> Renzi stressed that France, as well as other European partners, should not be sending ships to rescue migrants in the Mediterranean to then just leave them to Italy. <br /><br /> But French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said France would continue to turn back migrants, and that Italy must follow the EU’s Dublin regulations, which assign mos

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