Italian Interior Minister
Angelino Alfano is "barefaced" in complaining about high refugee
arrivals to Italy while at the same time allegedly not
respecting EU norms on them, Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim
Herrmann said Friday.
"It is rather barefaced that Interior Minister Angelino
Alfano should on the one hand complain about the heavy burden
deriving from the arrival of refugees across the Mediterrean
while on the other he is not concerned with respecting European
regulations on asylum matters," Herrmann said.
Alfano recently said Italy's huge Mare Nostrum
search-and-rescue operation would stop and the EU's border
agency Frontex should step in to cope with a rising influx of
asylum seekers from North Africa, many originally from Syria and
Iraq.
The EU has said Frontex is currently too small to take up
the reins.
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