Hard Merkel with immigrants: Reaction Together or Crisis Exploses

So said German Chancellor Angela Merkel from Berlin on the hottest issue of the moment, which appears to have blown up after Italy's decision with the populist government at the helm to block the ship “Aquarius” with 629 immigrants aboard Mediterranean waters.

Merkel's words came after a meeting with Austrian counterpart Sebastian Kurz, who is one of the critics of refugee accession and has roughed up the asylumrs' measures with a recent decision by his government.

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“to agree on the review of Dublin regulation. We should not allow migration to be a split element”, he stressed.

On the issue of refugees from the East, forced after the phenomenon “Aquarius” has also been promoted by European Parliament Speaker Antonio Taani.

The migration issue is strategic because it puts the whole EU at risk. If this problem is not addressed and properly resolved, the entire project” fails, he said.

“We can no longer wait, because we will have dozens of cases like what we are seeing these days and with the summer the situation will deteriorate”, he added. /GS