Foreign Minister Angelino Alfano
on Monday praised German Chancellor Angela Merkel's 2015
decision to let in one million Syrian refugees but said today's
situation in the central Mediterranean was "completely
different" because of the high number of economic migrants.
Speaking to German daily Bild, Alfano said Merkel in 2015
"put herself on the right side of history, she showed true
leadership, with force and courage".
But he went on: "The situation on the central Mediterranean
route is now completely different because alongside refugees
many economic migrants are coming in".
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