Migrant crisis may rip apart ‘selfish’ EU – Italy FM

ROME – A deepening immigration crisis is threatening to rip the “soul” out of the European Union, Italy’s foreign minister warns.

In a hard-hitting interview with the Il Messaggero daily, Paolo Gentiloni says the kind of chaotic scenes witnessed this weekend at the Greece-Macedonia border represented a real threat to the free movement of people across the bloc.

Separately, German Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel calls for the EU’s asylum policy to be overhauled, and for member-states to share the migratory influx “fairly.”

“On immigration, Europe is in danger of displaying the worst of itself: selfishness, haphazard decision-making and rows between member states,” Gentiloni says. “I am very worried. Today it is on this issue that Europe will either rediscover its soul or lose it for good.”

— AFP