Italy sought last-minute changes on Thursday to a tentative EU agreement on sharing out responsibility for looking after migrants and refugees, pushing for a cut in the number of people each country would take on.
Home affairs ministers from across the 27-member bloc are meeting to try seal a deal to end years of damaging feuds dating back to 2015 when more than a million people - mostly fleeing the war in Syria - reached the EU across the Mediterranean.
He asked for more cooperation with states outside the EU to reduce irregular immigration, more detail on how much compensation would come to countries like his from EU states who refuse to host migrants, and other changes.Countries on the bloc's southern edge, including Italy and Greece, have demanded more help to cope with the number of people arriving on their shores.
Under the deal, each country would be responsible for a particular number of people, but would not necessarily have to take them in. As Piantedosi spoke, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, her Dutch colleague Mark Rutte and the head of the EU's executive announced a visit to Tunisia to discuss economic and energy ties with the country, a gateway for African migration to Europe.
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