Premier Matteo Renzi told the
Senate on the eve of an EU summit on Wednesday that just last
year, Italy faced the migrant crisis alone. "Very few stood by
Italy's cry of pain," the premier said. "The times in which
governments...barricaded themselves behind the short-sighted and
asphyxiating rules of the Dublin Regulation are long past -
today no one fails to see the issue as a European one". Italy
won't stop taking in refugees, he said. "As far as (migrant)
reception we will not give up the values of our civilization,"
he said. "But we must be clear: when you have asylum seekers who
spend the day doing nothing obviously a feeling of disaffection
will grow in public opinion - and it mustn't be judged from a
moralistic standpoint (because) it is the cry of pain of those
who don't understand". He added that "equating security with
fighting immigration is a patent falsehood".
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