Italy is back in the EU's top
trio after the three-way summit with Germany and France off the
island of Ventotene Monday, Interior Minister Angelino Alfano
said Tuesday.
"In this season Italy has re-entered with full
qualifications the leading group in Europe, which it had
appeared to have left," Alfano said, calling the Ventotene
summit a "symbolic but also substantive response" to pressing EU
issues like Brexit, terror, migrants, growth and youth
unemployment.
Alfano also welcomed Germany's decision to join the EU's
migrant relocation scheme by taking several hundred asylum
seekers from Italy.
The interior minister praised German Chancellor Angela
Merkel for wanting to be on the "right side of history" in
welcoming more than a million refugees, even if it might cost
her votes.
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