One or two countries can't
pay for "an entire global movement of refugees fleeing wars and
persecutions", Interior Minister Angelino Alfano said Thursday.
He was commenting the risk that a mini-Schengen Area without
Greece and Italy is de facto being set up in Europe as some
countries restore border controls to prevent asylum seekers from
entering. Greece and Italy are the first landfall for refugees
fleeing Africa and the Middle East across the Mediterranean.
"Europe has nowhere to go without Italy," Alfano said. "This
European situation with the UK holding a referendum on exiting
and possibly an Italy that would have to submit to this type of
choice - that would truly make for an inconsistent Europe and
one without a future".
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