Italian Premier Matteo Renzi on
Friday said that the current migrant crisis in Italy isn't an
"an invasion underway" and that the country has "clear ideas" on
how to face it. "The EU is bringing a strategy starting from aid
to African countries and blocking the journeys of death," Renzi
said. "I don't want to minimise, but I do want to give a
reliable message. The number of arrivals is just slightly higher
than last year. I say to the Italians: common sense and reason".
Migrants and refugees are massing to cross the Mediterranean to
Italy after the route through Greece and the Balkans was closed
off by an EU-Turkey deportation and resettlement deal.
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