ROME - France and Germany have expressed their “full agreement” with Italy when it comes to the migrant crisis. The Paris Summit called for by Italian Minister of the Interior Marco Minniti is due to produce a document with specific proposals that Italy will present on Thursday at the JHA (meeting for Justice and Home Affairs ministers) meeting in Tallinn, Estonia. The dossier has the support of both Paris and Berlin. The stricter monitoring around the action and financing of NGOs, (they will not be allowed to go so close to the limit of the Libyan territorial waters), as well as more funds to allow Libya to control its coasts, are among the key points in the document. 65% of Italians think that some NGOs have somehow operated illegally according Italian daily newspaper La Repubblica, who published a special analysis on the budget of NGOs in their Affari & Finanza section.

Minniti also pushed for the “relocation” across Europe of migrants, as written in The British Embassy’s official statement, and more border controls on Niger. This comes as the Italian government threatened to deny migrant boats' docking privileges, and leader of the lower house of Forza Italia, Renato Brunetta, commented: “Minitti should block the boats that are circling round our country and request from the EU that they be directed to other Mediterranean ports”.

Hostility towards migrants coming to Italy manifested itself recently in Vorbano, Brescia, where at least two molotovs were thrown at a hotel which was meant to be accommodating asylum seekers. According to early reports from the police, there have been no injuries, but people approached the building armed, broke through a window, and threw the petrol bombs inside.

In the Paris Summit, which lasted just over two and a half hours, the interior ministers of Italy, France and Germany, Marco Minniti, Gerard Collomb and Thomas de Maiziere, and the European Commissioner for Immigration, Avramoupolos, agreed to “support Italy”, as reported by Italian news agency ANSA. The ministries will all work together to bring forward a number of concrete proposals which will be presented at the next summit in Tallinn, Estonia. Ferdinando Giugliano, economics columnist for La Repubblica, has commented that “the absence of a common policy on migration is a short-sighted choice that needs an urgent counteraction. Good management of the external borders is essential given the porosity of the borders between member states.”

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