Foreign Minister Enrico Moavero
Milanesi said Tuesday there was no alternative to the European
Union for Italy and terrorists were possibly arriving on some
migrant boats.
"I can't see alternatives to an active participation by Italy
in the process of European integration," he said.
"I have a dim view of isolationism and attempts at pure
hindrance".
Moavero said "let us rather seek to be bringers of ideas,
also heterodox. You know well what you leave, you know less well
what you find and that is also shown by what is happening in
Britain".
There is a "possibility" that terrorists are coming to Italy
on migrant boats, Moavero Milanesi said.
"Many elements lead us to believe that on the boats there are
returning fighters and there may be people bringing a terrorist
threat, so there is a direct interest with respect to the NATO
defence clause," he said on the eve of the NATO summit in
Brussels.
"We will forcefully ask at the NATO summit for a rebalancing
of the Atlantic Alliance's commitment towards the Mediterranean.
We must have the same commitment towards the south as to the
east".
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