The interior ministry has shifted 42
million euros of spending from migrant reception to voluntary
repatriations, Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said Thursday.
He said the move had been made possible after screening all
ongoing integration and reception projects, funded both by the
EU and Italy.
"What until a short while ago was a business that enriched a
few people at the expense of many has become an investment in
security and repatriation," he said.
"The line item is still the same, immigration, but there
different ways of using the funds that are under that item".
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