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French President Emmanuel Macron and Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte agreed on Wednesday 18 September for an " automatic mechanism " for the distribution of migrants, to which all EU countries should participate " in a way or another, "on pain of" financial penalties ".
Paris and Rome, who displayed their unity after two years of dissension on the hot topic of immigration, will defend in the European Union " a common position so that all countries participate in one way or another " at the reception " or be penalized financially ", explained Emmanuel Macron, who came to Rome for a brief visit to the Italian Council President Giuseppe Conte.
Both also called for " more effective " management of the return to their country of origin of migrants who are not entitled to asylum. The Italian leader stressed that Italy would not " let traffickers decide on the entry into the territory ", but also felt that it was necessary to " manage this phenomenon ", when the former Minister of the Interior Matteo Salvini , boss League, refused any landing of migrants.
Regretting for his part the " injustice " experienced by the Italians, Emmanuel Macron repeated that the EU had not been sufficiently supportive of Italy. " France is ready to evolve on this point in the framework of the overhaul of the Dublin agreements ", which currently entrusts to the countries of arrival the load of the treatment of the requests for asylum, he said.
I believe very deeply that the answer to the migratory subject is not in the withdrawal or the provocation nationalist but in the construction of solutions and real and effective European cooperation.
Emmanuel Macron visits Italy 18/09/2019 - by Valérie Gas Listen
" I do not esteem what the Italian people have experienced, " said President Macron, but " the response to the subject of migration is not in the fold but in an effective European cooperation solution ." Several EU interior ministers are due to meet on Monday (23 September) in Malta to discuss the issue.