The European Union urged Italy on Wednesday to speed up preparations for what it expects will be a new wave of migrants crossing the Mediterranean from Libya this summer. In reports endorsed at its weekly meeting, the European Commission, the EU executive, found both Italy and Greece, the member states in the front line of the migration crisis, wanting in their application of measures agreed by EU leaders and also called on Turkey to fulfil its recent commitments to cooperate. A Commission statement said the report on Italy, where more than 160,000 irregular migrants arrived last year, found that only two of six planned "hot spots" for processing those to be considered for asylum or be deported were fully operational.
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