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Tuesday, October 25, 2016

PM says Italy cannot handle rate of migrant arrivals

[Italy's PM Renzi talks to the media as he leaves a EU leaders summit in Brussels]Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi on Tuesday said that the country cannot handle the same number of migrant arrivals next year that it has seen in 2016, calling on other European countries to do more. In an interview with RAI state television, Renzi repeated a threat to veto the disbursement of European Union funds to countries that refuse to help Italy and Greece, who have taken in hundreds of thousands of migrants over the past three years. "Italy cannot take another year like the one we've just had," Renzi said during the recording of a talk show.


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