Italy doesn't need "charity" from
the EU on migrants, Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said
Tuesday.
"If they want to give money to someone else let them do so,
Italy doesn't need charity," he said in reference to a Financial
Times report that the EU proposes paying 6,000 euros for every
migrants rescued in the Mediterranean and received by one of the
EU's member States.
As well as being interior minister, Salvini is also deputy
premier and leader of the anti-migrant Euroskeptic League (L)
party.
According to a copy of the plan obtained by ANSA, "controlled
centres" would be set up "on a voluntary basis" in EU countries
to improve asylum procedures and accelerate repatriation of
irregular migrants.
The plan, which the EC has sent to European capitals,
envisages financial support for States that agree to host the
centres.
Further, countries that agree to the transfer of migrants
into one of the controlled centres will receive 6,000 euros for
each refugee, the plan says.
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