The Italian government aims to
introduce rules that will allow the use of force on migrants who
refuse to undergo photo identification procedures, an official
from the Interior Ministry's Department of Public Security told
a parliamentary commission on Thursday.
Giovanni Pinto from the immigration and border police
section of the department said it involved "allowing the use of
force corresponding to the need to identify who is arriving in
Italy, as Europe is asking of us".
Interior Minister Angelino Alfano said on Thursday that a
planned quota system for dealing with migrants in Europe was in
its trial phase, responding to a question about delays to
redistribution of migrants around the bloc.
"The important thing is to have started," he said. "It's
clear that in coming months the numbers are going to get bigger,
but we are in the breaking-in phase," he said.
Meanwhile EU high representative for foreign affairs
Federica Mogherini said the migrant crisis risked damaging the
bloc's relations with its global partners.
"The refugee crisis risks becoming a structural impairment
to the EU's relations with our partners in the world," she told
a parliamentary commission meeting.
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