Italy’s Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni has called for a Europe wide response to the wave of migrants risking their lives crossing the Mediterranean.
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It follows confirmation that 400 people are missing after their boat capsized on Monday. They had been part of a wave of migrants – 10,0000 in the last five days – trying to get to the Italian coast.
“There is an Italian commitment for an issue that is not only Italian and so what we are clearly saying is that especially at a European level, we need to take care of the emergency, not as a single country but as a union,” said the minister.
He went on to call for an increase in the budget of Triton – a limited replacement for Italy’s Mare Nostrum maritime rescue mission.
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