AFP has reported that France’s Interior Minister, Gérald Darmanin, announced on 31 July in Rome that France and Italy will be creating a joint brigade to deal with the networks of smugglers who move migrants across their common border.
Italy, where he met his Italian counterpart, Luciana Lamorgese, was the newly appointed French minister’s first foreign trip. Both ministers said they wanted to forge a common position in light of the new Pact on Asylum and Migration that is expected in...