(ANSA) Naples, July 3 - European Parliament member Nicola
Caputo formally tabled a question asking the European Commission
Thursday to appoint an ad hoc commissioner to tackle the
continent's mushrooming illegal immigration crisis.
"The images of those children, alone and exhausted on the
benches in the port of Salerno do not permit us to look away,"
said Caputo, a member of Premier Matteo Renzi's Democratic
Party.
"I presented a question to the European Commission asking
that a commissioner for immigration be named and that Frontex
... be transformed into a European frontier guard corps, so that
Italy is no longer alone in facing up to the migration
emergencies," the MEP said.
"Naming a European commissioner for immigration would be
positive signal by the EU. We are faced with a real humanitarian
emergency that can't be dealt with by our country alone".
"The work of our Navy busy plucking as many lives from the
sea as possible is no longer enough," Caputo said.
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