Italy PM clashes with Germany, France over gist of migration deal
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Italy clashed with Germany and France on Friday over exactly what was agreed hours earlier at a European Union summit to ease disputes over migration threatening the foundation of the EU.
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said the deal did not foresee that Rome would take back migrants who had moved onto Germany from Italy, a remark likely to displease Germany's Angela Merkel who needed clear commitments to do so from EU partners to stave off the collapse of her governing coalition.
"The accord does not foresee that Italy takes migrants from Germany," Conte told a news conference after a two-day EU summit in Brussels. "I did not undersign any specific agreement with Merkel" on taking back migrants, he added.
