Premier Paolo Gentiloni stressed
that the European Union must do more to help Italy with the
Mediterranean asylum-seeker crisis on the concluding day of the
European summit on Friday.
Gentiloni called for "greater impulse for migratory policies,
which cannot be left on the shoulders of the countries on the
front line, but must be shared by (all) the European States".
The government has repeatedly complained about the European
Union's slow response to Italy's calls for help with asylum
seekers.
This particularly concerts an agreement to relocate a total
of 160,000 people from Italy and Greece.
The European Commission recently announced it was launching
infringement procedures against the Czech Republic, Hungary and
Poland for failing to meet their obligations in relation to this
agreement.
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