President Sergio Mattarella said
Wednesday the European Union must work together to do more to
deal with the asylum seeker crisis. "Migratory pressures,
ongoing crises at Europe's door, instability in some areas of
Africa and the Middle East, the scourge of terrorism - all these
clearly indicate we must do more, and that we need to do it via
a truly collective effort," he said. "We don't have a plan B -
no one can realistically boast of a plan B based on an alleged
national approach to solving the problems affecting the
continent. On the contrary, we can say that wherever Europe has
shown a lack of solidarity in refugee reception, or foreign
policy, or its effectiveness in fighting gangs of murdering
extremists, this happened due to a lack of Europe and not an
excess".
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