By Magyar Nemzet
The German government coalition rejects Italy’s call for the incoming refugees to be resettled
Both the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Social Democratic Party (SPD) emphasize that the migration situation in Italy is not yet so serious that help is needed from other member states, although both the Liberal Democratic Party (FDP) and the Greens propose a proportional distribution.
CDU spokesman Thorsten Frei pointed out that around 38,000 asylum applications had been made in Germany by the end of April.
Lars Castellucci, migration policy spokesman for the SPD parliamentary group, also said that Italy currently does not need any help. The asylum policy spokeswoman for the Greens, Luise Amtsberg, has already said that German cities are ready to take in migrants:
Germany must take part in the temporary distribution mechanism and take in around a quarter of the migrants in relation to its population.
Stephan Thomae, deputy chairman of the FDP parliamentary group, added the Greens’ statement that at least ten EU member states willing to grant asylum to migrants should sit down together.
EU Interior Commissioner Ylva Johansson had previously asked the member states to help Italy solve the migration situation.
She recalled that in mid-May more than two thousand migrants reached the island of Lampedusa in one day, while the Italian authorities had already registered more than thirteen thousand migrants since the beginning of the year, tripling the number of the previous year.
According to previous press reports, there are at least nine hundred thousand migrants in Libya, but the migration routes cannot always be controlled by the local authorities.
The majority, especially Afghans and Syrians, do not want to go to Italy, but primarily to Germany.