German Chancellor Angela Merkel
said Thursday that "we will help Italy" with the asylum-seeker
crisis.
"This need in dear to our hearts," she added at the press
conference at the end of a preparatory summit in Berlin ahead of
next month's G20.
European Council President Donald Tusk said the final G20
statement should contain "a concrete reference to the fight
against traffickers of human beings".
But French President Emmanuel Macron's support for Italy
appeared more conditional.
"We support Italy and France must do its bit on the asylum of
people seeking refuge," he said.
"Then there is the problem of economic refugees and this is
not a new issue - 80% of the migrants that arrive in Italy and
economic migrants. We must not get mixed up".
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