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by Tiziana Di Giovannandrea 13 September 2019 Germany and France are ready to welcome each 25% of migrants rescued in the Mediterranean and landed in Italy. We are moving towards the creation of a "temporary mechanism" and the European Commission is ready to financially and operationally support the solution for the allocation of migrants saved in the Mediterranean.

Confirmed by German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer. In an interview with the Sueddeutsche Zeitung he explained that a similar availability was expressed by France. This proposal for a solution of the subdivision of migrants among European countries will be presented, according to what the German newspaper reports, at the summit of EU Interior Ministers set for September 23rd in Malta to be officially exposed to the European Council in October.

"I have always said that our migration policy should also be human and that we will not drown anyone," said Seehofer to the Bavarian newspaper. "The talks are continuing, but if everything remains as we have said, we can welcome 25% of the people saved at sea who end up in Italy. With this our migration policy will not be overloaded".

Italy, France, Germany and Malta, which are intent on setting a first and provisional regulation for the division of quotas, should be followed by other countries, says Merkel, the government minister: "Our expectation is that other states will be added," he said. Seehofer.

Conte: "Finally Italy will not be left alone"
The steps forward towards the creation of the distribution solution, to which the European Commission is working and on which the new Executive is counting to manage humanitarian ship arrivals without crisis, have been announced by Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte during his visit to Castelsantangelo on Nera, in the province of Macerata, where he took stock of post-earthquake reconstruction and spoke of welcoming migrants.

"There are important European perspectives. At the moment there is a permanent availability on the part of some European countries. I do not want to anticipate it further, but the answers coming from European countries are serious answers that show how Italy will not be left at last alone. We are working on it, promising important news ".