[Illusion]

Matteo Renzi threatens to employ unspecified 'Plan B' for dealing with Italy's migrant crisis if other EU countries fail to redistribute more migrants

Matteo Renzi, the Italian prime minister, has vowed to “hurt Europe” if other EU countries including Britain do not help tackle its migrant crisis.

The warning came as Italian riot police were deployed to the Alps to disperse hundreds of men, women and children who were turned away from the French border.

Mr Renzi said the EU’s response to the arrival of tens of thousands of migrants on Italy’s shores had “not been good enough”, describing a plan to redistribute less than half of those rescued this year as “almost a provocation”.

He warned that the crisis “should not be underestimated”.

“It is a serious issue and, let me be clear, Europe’s answers so far have not been good enough,” Mr Renzi told Corriere della Sera.

“Redistributing just 24,000 people is almost a provocation,” he said. “If Europe chooses solidarity, good. If it doesn’t, we have Plan B ready. But it would first and foremost hurt Europe.”

He did not elaborate on the details of the alternative plan.

It comes as riot police were deployed on Saturday night along the Italian-French border after a group of around 200 migrants were denied entry into France.

The migrants began blocking traffic, while others went on hunger strike in protest at the decision by French authorities.

Italian police pushed the migrants back to Ventimiglia, an Italian city about three miles from the border, but the protests continued late into the night.

Migrants held aloft banners reading “we want freedom” and “we are not going back”, while one man had to be rescued after throwing himself in the sea.

The EU has so far failed to gain consensus for its proposed migrant distribution plan, which would see 24,000 refugees taken in by other countries.

The number is less than half the 57,000 migrants who have been rescued so far this year.

Mr Renzi said he would discuss the issue with David Cameron, the prime minister, when he visits Milan Expo on Wednesday.

EU home ministers are due to discuss migration at a meeting in Luxembourg on Monday, ahead of a European Council summit on June 25-26.

Many migrants hope to leave Italy and claim asylum in Germany, Britain or Sweden.

However, a tightening of security at the French and Austrian borders has resulted in a bottleneck in Italy’s border towns and train stations.

Enrico Ioculano, mayor of Ventimiglia, said he had warned a month ago that the situation in the town was reaching breaking point.

“It’s not normal for France to block its borders in this way,” he said.

“This is an international drama. It shouldn’t be the case that only one region is left alone to deal with the emergency.”

About 150 migrants – including babies as young as three months – slept outside Milan Central Station over the weekend as they waited to take their chance on trains leaving for France and beyond.

In Bolzano, South Tyrol, there is a daily procession of migrants who attempt to board trains for Austria.

Charity workers offering food and drink to families camped out on station platforms in Bolzano said that officials are playing a “game of ping pong”, where migrants boarding trains for Innsbruck, a city in the Austrian alps, are stopped and sent back to Italy.

They then try again on a different train, often hiding in lavatories to avoid detection.

Dispatch: how Milan Station is the starting point for the 'Migrant Express' to northern Europe

Angelino Alfano, Italy's interior minister, later said that the EU would encounter "a different Italy" if member states cannot agree on a redistribution plan.

"I will say with great clarity: Kids, either we do equal distribution of migrants in Europe, or we organise refugee camps in Libya, or we organise a serious policy of repatriation," Mr Alfano told Sky TG24. "If Europe doesn't follow through on its responsibility and solidarity, it will find a different Italy."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk

[TheVrist]

Syrians are moving through Macedonia by the hundreds in groups.

[rob666]

Lots of Libyans too I assume.

[TheVrist]

I'm sure. They were on foot a lot on the train rails, people started getting ran over by the trains, so they started round ups there. They stopped using the railways, now can be seen riding caravans of bicycles. Too many to round up for under-funded Macedonia, so they have no choice but to let them pass through.

[commondenom]

fuckers....italian navy should start protecting its water and sinking the boats with these 'migrants' on....they'll soon learn to stay the fuck away....

italys crime rate is going to soar now

[commondenom]

why don't they fucking migrate to some neighbouring african country??

[rob666]

Originally Posted by commondenom ↗

why don't they fucking migrate to some neighbouring african country??

Are you a white South African?

[kellyhound]

also:

Serbia's prime minister has said he is "shocked" by Hungary's plan to erect a border fence to keep out migrants.

Aleksandar Vucic said the four-metre (13ft) fence was "not the solution" to migrants entering Hungary from Serbia.

Hungarian authorities announced the plan on Wednesday, saying the wall would run the length of the 175km (109-mile) border between the countries.

Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said Hungary could not wait for the EU to find a solution to immigration.

Speaking on TV during a visit to Oslo, Mr Vucic said: "I am surprised and shocked. We will discuss this decision with our Hungarian colleagues.
"Building walls is not the solution.

Serbia can't be responsible for the situation created by the migrants, we are just a transit country. Is Serbia responsible for the crisis in Syria?"

Mr Vucic said he intended to discuss the move with Serbia's partners in the EU.

There was also criticism from the Council of Europe's Human Rights Commissioner Nils Muiznieks, who described the planned fence as "ill-advised."

There has been a sharp rise in the number of migrants and asylum seekers entering Hungary in 2015.

The government said about 54,000 migrants entered the country so far this year, compared to 43,000 people in 2014.

[commondenom]

Originally Posted by rob666 ↗

Are you a white South African?

that's the best kind of white to be

[PTSD Is My Life]

Originally Posted by commondenom ↗

that's the best kind of white to be

I've worked with quite a few SA ex military and ex civpol in some errr dodgy places.

A few where very fucked up, sick and twisted with no moral compass or appeared to lack any form of compassion. 2 or 3 would quite simply shoot just in case....

But most of them...well they where tough as old boots and simply the best at what they did. Their skills in "riot" like situations in Iraq saved our asses a few times as they held a position in a compound near a section of road we had no choice but to use (the surrounding desert was mined) and we used to get hit regular away on a section that pulled several roads together.

All hell would be breaking loose and your praying that a heli can get airborne and there ASAP and that the QRF (Quick Reaction Force) wasn't tied up elsewhere when you would see the fucking dust devils kicked upmas the crazy fuckers came hairing down the track they had to sweep for mines every morning purely to help you out...they where civilians there to protect the water pipeline pumping stations for the desalination plants...and well they said other than the mining of their road and a couple of "little" firefights each week they got bored so would come to the aid of stuck convoys...crazy fuckers had a great outlook on anyone trying to take a life of a friendly...killing was a hard earned skill and they had worked bloody hard at it. The local mullahs and the wrecking crews where terrified of them.