President Sergio Mattarella
stressed the need for share responsibility of the management of
migrant flows and argued the EU should handle the repatriations
of people whose asylum requests have been rejected after meeting
his German counterpart Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Wednesday.
"We think that it is necessary for countries to feel the
responsibility to activate common redistribution mechanisms and
that the EU should assume the duty of repatriations... for those
who do not have the right to stay in the EU," Mattarella said.
The Italian president also talked about the economic
situation.
"Trade tensions and the threat of trade wars create
particularly complicated circumstances, so it is necessary to
have measures that stimulate the domestic markets and to develop
investment to maintain the balance of our countries' economies,"
he said.
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