(ANSA) - Rome, July 12 - Premier Giuseppe Conte said after a NATO summit Thursday that "Italy has inherited spending commitments as far as the contribution to NATO concerns which we have not altered. Therefore there is no additional spending".
Conte said Thursday that "I am drafting a letter to Juncker, Tusk and the European institutions to push Europe on the implementation of those innovative principles on immigration that emerged from the European Council". He said he had discussed migrants in a tete-a-tete with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Conte added that there was no "acrimony or conflict" with French President Emmanuel Macron and "we will defend our positions everywhere".
US President Donald Trump said after a NATO summit Thursday that "immigration is a sensitive issue.
Look at Italy: (Premier) Giuseppe (Conte) won the elections because he had a strong policy on immigration".
Interior Minister Matteo Salvini campaigned on an anti-migrant platform.
Trump was addressing a press conference after threatening to quit NATO unless members stumped up more money for the alliance.