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January 21, 2020 "Italy is the country that has most suffered the migration crisis in Europe in the last 10 years, in particular since someone bombed Libya in 2011. And it is for the same reason that we continue to say that there is no solution. military to the Libyan crisis ", writes Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio on Facebook, after meeting, among others, the vice president of the EU Commission Schinas.

"We have paid blame that we did not have and today we have sent a clear message to the EU: without Italy, the EU cannot do it, and for this reason we expect our requests to be accepted. Today - he continues - I met the Vice President Schinas and the Commissioner for Internal Affairs and Migration, Ylva Johansson, to whom I brought back a very simple concept: Italy is the country that has given more in these years and has been left alone, now it's up to someone else. Also because our country is among the 5 that have accepted more migrants in the European Union, but asylum applications are higher elsewhere, for example in France, and this shows that most of the people who land on our shores are not going to stay there, or rather want to go to Northern Europe ".

"This - according to Di Maio - must push the European Union to intervene with determination and in the first person. And Italy's requests are very clear: meanwhile Dublin must be overcome and the principle of who first welcomes, then manages; then there are voluntary repatriation. The EU - he continued - must first deal with it by resorting to Frontex and it must do so by drawing up a list of safe countries where to return, as we have already done in Italy, in order to speed up operations. also incentives at EU level towards those African countries, and not only, who are willing to receive repatriation. Commercial or visa policy incentives ".