While a meeting in Paris on Monday 22 July between EU interior and foreign affairs ministers will try to advance work on a temporary disembarkation scheme, with a possible new involvement by Italy in Operation Sophia, Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has again expressed his opposition at this stage and did not support it at an informal ministerial meeting in Helsinki on Thursday 18 July.
Italy and other countries “challenge the idea of a first safe port of call for migrants and...