Germany Defends Migrant Returns to Italy Under New EU Pact, Sees No Bilateral Conflict

3 articles · Updated · Agenzia ANSA · Aug 24

Berlin said Monday it sees no dispute with Rome after Germany became the first of six EU members to start sending migrants back to Italy under the EU’s new Migration and Asylum Pact.
Stefan Kornelius, spokesman for Chancellor Friedrich Merz, said there was “close cooperation” on migration policy, framing the exchanges over the returns as routine rather than a diplomatic clash.
Germany’s interior ministry echoed that line, saying contacts with Italy were being handled in a spirit of friendship and mutual trust.
The returns concern so-called “Dubliners” — migrants previously covered by rules requiring asylum claims to be processed in the EU country of first entry.

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