French President Emmanuel Macron
told an end-of-summit press conference that the EU had failed to
pay sufficient attention in the past to Italy's appeals over the
Mediterranean asylum-seeker crisis. "We lacked balance on
solidarity" on migrants and the economic crisis, Macron said in
reference to countries hit by "asymmetric shocks". "We did not
listen to Italy about the migrant wave that was arriving," he
added. "Common EU rules are needed both for the Balkan route and
the Libya one".
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