Germany is ready to take in a quarter of migrants who reach Italy by sea, Interi...
FILE PHOTO: German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer arrives for the informal meeting of EU ministers of home affairs in Helsinki, Finland July 18, 2019. Jussi Nukari/Lehtikuva/via REUTERS
European Union countries want to reach a temporary agreement on sharing out the care for migrants who reach the bloc’s shores when interior ministers meet in Malta on Sept. 23. “If all that has been agreed stands, we would be able to take in 25% of people rescued at sea and who end up in Italy,” Seehofer told the Sueddeutsche newspaper. “This will not overwhelm our migration policy.”
An increase in migrant arrivals by sea over the summer months had strained relations between the EU states and fellow member Italy, whose former far-right Interior Minister Matteo Salvini closed Italy’s ports to boats rescuing the new arrivals in the Mediterranean.
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