Italian Foreign Minister Paolo
Gentiloni on Monday asked the EU for more funds and air and sea
resources to control immigration in the Mediterranean.
"It's necessary more than ever that the EU respond in an
adequate way, increasing solidarity and sharing of
responsibility at a European level," he wrote to EU High
Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica
Mogherini, European Commission Vice President Frans Timmermans
and the other six commissioners set to meet March 4 to discuss
immigration.
Italy has been struggling to cope with migrant flows from
militia-plagued Libya.
EU border agency Frontex's Triton operation is smaller and
worse equipped than the now-defunct Italian Mare Nostrum op that
saved most migrants until it ended in November.
Italian Premier Matteo Renzi has ruled out reviving the
prohibitively expensive Mare Nostrum and stressed the need to
stop the chaos in Libya where the influence of Islamic State
(ISIS) is spreading.
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