Piantedosi, Italy will not be a collection center for EU migrants

(ANSA) - LUXEMBOURG, JUNE 08 - "Italy has obtained consensus on all the proposals made during today's Council. First of all, we have avoided the hypothesis that Italy and all Member States of first entry would be paid to keep irregular migrants in their territories: Italy will not be the collection centre for immigrants on behalf of Europe." This was declared by Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi. "We were able to obtain a legal framework for possible agreements with safe third countries and we also avoided the imposition of limitations that would have excluded some countries."
"Italy has had a position of great responsibility and has found correspondence from other countries: we have tried to make border procedures workable, a process that we believe should continue. We believe that it is a day when something starts and not only is it a day of arrival", added Piantedosi.
"It was a busy day. This is a place of mediation and we are satisfied. Today we have obtained a concrete solidarity of the European Union, with compensation mechanisms on the returns of Dublin and above all we have refused the option of cash compensation because it is incompatible with the dignity of our country and, on the contrary, the financial commitments of the countries that do not make direct solidarity will flow into a fund, managed by the Commission, to implement concrete projects for the so-called external dimension". Finally, the minister pointed out. (ANSA).