Mattarella: 'It is extremely urgent to define a new EU asylum pact' Mattarella: "We have the duty and the possibility as a Union to take on the task of transforming a disorderly and tumultuous phenomenon" "The government has launched the Mattei plan to collaborate with the countries of the African continent in a way that involves the entire European Union", stated the head of state. "Cyprus and Italy are two Mediterranean countries that not only have stability and peace at heart but also international collaboration, freedom of trade"