EU crisis committee on migrants needed - Conte

(ANSA) - Rome, July 19 - A European Union crisis committee on migrants is needed, Premier Giuseppe Conte said in a long interview on the front page of the Fatto Quotidiano newspaper on Thursday.
    "On Tuesday I wrote the second letter to Juncker and Tusk to ask that what happened Sunday", that is the divvying up of migrants, "should become the norm, no longer entrusted to phone calls among partners, but to a cabinet or crisis committee under the aegis of the European Commission, which will then be a mediator among the various governments", Conte said.
    At the weekend Interior Minister Matteo Salvini blocked Italian ports to a wooden boat with 450 migrants aboard, prompting six EU countries to eventually say they would take some of them and allowing the Italian government to say "finally migrants have landed in Europe and not Italy" and Salvini to say "we're not Europe's migrant camp any more.