Migrants, Berlin: "We are not leaving Italy alone. We have already made this mistake"

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 "We don't leave Italy alone, we don't repeat past mistakes." So the German foreign minister Heiko Maas, about the new migration wave from Tunisia. "The coronavirus crisis affects migratory flows in the Mediterranean," explained Maas, stressing that "Italy has been hit by surprise by a strong wave of migrants from Tunisia in the past few weeks. We cannot leave it alone in this situation". "We have already made this mistake in the past and we don't have to repeat it," he added.

"Collaboration with the countries of origin is also of decisive importance," continues Maas, noting therefore that "as the European Union we must undertake efforts together with Tunisia to ensure that even at the time of Covid-19 people could have prospects for better future than a dangerous journey across the Mediterranean ". "For this purpose we will work under the presidency of the European semester", which until December is from Germany, concludes the minister.