EU Summit – Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte Comments

Italy’s Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte is reported to be satisfied by the deal. “It was a long negotiation but from today Italy is no longer alone.”

He listed the elements of the agreement, including the possibility of setting up migrant centres in EU countries to decide on asylum requests, but he made it clear Italy had not yet decided on whether to have such a site on its territory.

“It is a decision that we will take together in the government. We are not at all urged to do so,” Conte told reporters after attending his first EU summit.

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