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TEHRAN, June 20 - Germany, France and other key European nations hit by the migration crisis will hold an informal mini summit on Sunday.
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) - The European Commission announced Wednesday that several government leaders will be gathering in Brussels to look into "finding European solutions" to solve the political crisis that has pitted many EU nations against one another.
Officials said Germany, France, Italy and Greece would attend. The officials declined to be identified because the mini summit is still in its planning stage.
A full summit of the bloc's 28 government leaders that will focus on migration is set for June 28-29.
Italian President Sergio Mattarella says it is up to a united European Union to manage the arrival of refugees forced to flee their homelands.
In a message for World Refugee Day Wednesday, Mattarella said "the international community must work with shared and long-term political choices to manage a phenomenon that involves the entire world. The European Union in particular must know how to intervene, without delegating to the countries of first-arrival the responsibility to confront the emergency."
The comments come as Italy's new hard-line interior minister, Matteo Salvini, presses Europe to relieve Italy of the burden of arrivals, making his point by refusing port to an aid agency's rescue boat with some 630 migrants onboard.
Salvini is meeting later with the Italian premier to discuss Italy's position on the migrant issue at an upcoming EU summit. The leader of the anti-migrant League has long argued the majority of those rescued at sea are economic migrants, not refugees.
Source: AP
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