The billionaire philanthropist and financier George Soros has called for the EU to compensate Italy for migrants landing there, as the country’s hardline new interior minister made his first official trip a provocative one, to one of their main arrival points. “The good times for illegal migrants are over.”The interior minister also described NGO rescue boats as “smugglers’ deputies” for their role in bringing migrants to safety. “But since September 2015, both France and Austria closed their borders and the rescued migrants were stuck in Italy. Salvini will be in Luxembourg on Tuesday for a meeting of EU interior ministers with the agenda set to be dominated by discussion about the Dublin rule. Soros warned: “There is a strong inclination in Europe to use the occasion [of the new government] to teach Italy a lesson ...

Source: The Guardian June 03, 2018 15:33 UTC