German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is blocking German’s eastern boders to migrants but is allegedly facilitating their arrival in Italy by funding migrant-rescue NGOs operating in the central Mediterranean, Defence Minister Guido Crosetto said on X Sunday after Scholz announced additional controls at the border with Austria and other joint ones with Switzerland and the Czech Republic on their side.
Rome is in a spat with Berlin over German funded NGO run migrant rescue ships in the Med, with Italy saying that the migrants should be taken to Germany.
Berlin currently funds 10 of the 19 German NGO ships, while also funding an Italian one helping migrants on Italian soil.
Crosetto said on Scholz’s policies on X: “You try to stop immigration in one part of Europe and facilitate its transport in another. Coherent and ingenious”.
Scholz blocks borders but eases Italy migrants – Crosetto – English – ANSA.it