EU must use leverage to get 3rd countries to take back migrants - Piantedosi

(ANSA) - ROME, AUG 4 - The EU must use all its leverage, including its economic power, to get third countries to take back migrants who arrive in the bloc illegally, Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi told an emergency conference call of European interior ministers on Tuesday following the arrival of thousands of migrants at the Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta last week. Piantedosi also said Rome's decision to suspend arrangements regarding the Schengen agreement allowing for control-...

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