{"id":37065,"date":"2018-08-26T06:52:04","date_gmt":"2018-08-26T11:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37065"},"modified":"2018-08-26T06:52:04","modified_gmt":"2018-08-26T11:52:04","slug":"italy-eu-migration-feud-eu-boils-over-with-italian-threats-schengen-at-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37065","title":{"rendered":"Italy-EU Migration Feud EU Boils Over With Italian Threats: Schengen at Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Italy and the EU are in a standoff setup over migration issues. Italy threatens to halt payments to the EU budget.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n
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A migrant ship, the Diciotti, docked at the Italian port of Catania, but prime minister Luigi Di Maio threatened that Italy would cease to become a net contributor to the EU budget unless there is a fair distribution of refugees.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The EU called an emergency meeting but no action was taken.Instead, the EU rebuked Italy for making “Unacceptable Threats<\/a>“.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said that envoys from EU states who met in Brussels on Friday did not reach a deal to share out the 150 migrants on board the Diciotti, an Italian coastguard ship docked in Catania since Monday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Italy will \u201cact accordingly<\/em>\u201d, he said on Facebook, noting the EU had failed to live up to its principles of \u201csolidarity and responsibility\u201d and that there was a gulf \u201cbetween words and actions\u201d that is colored by \u201chypocrisy\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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More than 650,000 people have reached Italian shores since 2014 and Rome has begun to take a rigidly anti-immigration line, saying it will not let any more rescue ships dock unless other EU states agree to take the people in.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, who heads the anti-immigrant League party, has insisted they will not be allowed ashore until other EU states agree to take them in – prompting a criminal investigation into whether the migrants are being held against their will.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cUnconstructive comments, let alone threats … will not get us any closer to a solution,<\/em>\u201d [EU] spokesman Alexander Winterstein told a news conference on Friday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Opposition lawmaker, Riccardo Magi, said most on board could qualify for asylum.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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