Italy’s Transport Minister and firebrand right-wing leader, Matteo Salvini, on Monday criticised Austria’s decision to intensify border controls between the two countries to stop migrants’ crossings, at a time when Rome is grappling with continuous arrivals of hundreds of seaborne migrants, Anadolu Agency reports. Vienna’s decision to reinforce controls on vehicles coming from Italy is a slap in the face of the European solidarity invoked yesterday in Lampedusa and a serious offense to law enforcers and volunteers who have been committed to defending Italian borders for years he said in a statement. Austria’s decision came after European Commission President, Ursula von der Leyen, visited the island of Lampedusa on Sunday, alongside the Italian Prime Minister after the tiny Mediterranean island […] Source
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