Italy's Salvini tells Macron to stop sending migrants back to Italy
Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini has called on France to stop turning back migrants who succeed in crossing into the country from Italy at the Rivierra town of Ventimiglia, adding that French President Emmanuel Macron 'is the first who should show solidarity and sensibility by reopening the border'.
ItalianItalian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini said on Tuesday that France should show greater “solidarity and sensibility” on immigration and suspend its policy of turning back migrants who try to enter France at the Ventimiglia border crossing, reports Reuters.
French President Emmanuel Macron “is the first who should show solidarity and sensibility by reopening the border at Ventimiglia”, Salvini said after meeting Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in Milan.
Salvini also said that talks with Germany have been going on for weeks and that an agreement to take back migrants who come through Italy and reach the German border is “close to hand”.
