Premier Giuseppe Conte said Tuesday
that Italy wants to see the EU's Dublin Regulation on managing
asylum seekers overhauled with a system of automatic
relocations.
"The first test of the new way of dialoguing with our
European partners is immigration," Conte told the Senate ahead
of a confidence vote in his M5S-League executive.
"The management of (migrant) flows up to now has been a
failure.
"Europe has allowed selfish closures by many States who
offloaded responsibilities and difficulties on others, our
country first and foremost.
"We will ask vehemently that the Dublin Regulation be
surpassed to achieve real respect of a fair division of the
responsibilities and the creation of obligatory automatic
relocation systems for asylum seekers".
The Dublin Regulation rules that requests are dealt with by
the EU country where the asylum seeker arrives, which has meant
Italy has borne most of the burden of the Mediterranean migrant
crisis.
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