We need common rules on immigration. After the closure of the British borders feared by London, this is the response that comes from Brussels also in view of the emergency summit to be held on 14 September. And the German Chancellor Angela Merkel let it be known that there is agreement on the need to help Italy on this front.
“There is great agreement – Merkel said in Berlin – on the fact that Italy must be helped” in the refugee crisis. It is not possible, added the chancellor, for the many migrants who arrive in Italy to stay there. "The world - she continued - sees Germany as a country of hope and chance, it hasn't always been like this". On the management of the refugee emergency, who live in the country and in Europe, you invoked "flexibility" on the part of Germany, recalling that the country has demonstrated it on various occasions "in the rescue of the banks, in the exit from nuclear power" . "It takes courage", she added, reiterating that there is no tolerance for those who do not respect the dignity of asylum seekers.
even the Vice President of the EU Commission he intervened. “We need to move quickly – said Frans Timmermans – towards common European rules on asylum requests, knowing that solidarity and responsibility are inseparable principles”. “It is necessary – he added – to speed up the registration procedures”.
"The whole of Europe mobilizes" on the issue of immigration. “We need a European asylum system”. We must not leave the “door open to xenophobia and populism. To each one's way for himself. Each for himself has never led to positive results,” added Timmermans.
Meanwhile comes a warning to Hungary: "Barriers do not send the right message" and the EU Commission "does not encourage the use of walls but of other means" for border surveillance. So a spokeswoman for the EU Commission on the completion of the anti-migrant wall in Hungary. However, it remains a "national competence" for which Budapest does not incur "any legal consequences".
