Merkel has recognized that "part of insecurity in Italy has its origin in the fact that Italians, after the collapse of Libya, felt left alone with the task of welcoming the many migrants arriving from Africa".
Merkel then added "we need a common asylum system and coherent parameters in the decision of who should receive asylum and who should not", which is why she hoped that "Frontex will become in the medium term a true European border police with European competences" and the creation of "a European institution dealing with asylum" on the basis of a Community law.
The Chancellor, hoping for greater solidarity within a common European system where each member country must make its contribution, reaffirms the need to take action to reduce illegal immigration as much as possible by proposing to make agreements with the countries of transit and origin to result in an orderly control of the flows of migrants and not the closure of borders.
Salvini replies to Merkel who, interviewed by Rtl 102.5, says: “Merkel? That Italy has been left alone is clear and evident. We need to see the facts. Tomorrow there is yet another meeting in Brussels on immigration, I will not be there because there is confidence in the government, but our delegation will be there to say no, because Europe promised us help a few months ago, on immigration and political asylum, but, instead, the document under discussion tomorrow would penalize Italy and other Mediterranean countries in favor of the countries of Northern and Eastern Europe. Then we will work with the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Community Policies to raise awareness among our neighbors, because otherwise we look like a strange condominium where Italians pay more than other condominiums but do not have the same services as others ”.