Mattarella, it is extremely urgent to define a new EU asylum pact - Last hour. "We have the duty and the possibility as a Union to take on the task of transforming a disorderly and tumultuous phenomenon, now in the hands of traffickers, into an orderly and legal arrival" President Sergio Mattarella said this speaking from Cyprus.

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