The timetable for reaching an agreement in the EU on the crisis regulation included in the Migration and Asylum Pact is getting longer. According to government sources, the expected approval of the meeting of Permanent Representatives has been postponed after Italy requested more time to evaluate the new compromise proposed by the Spanish presidency to meet Germany's requests, particularly on the protection for migrants and on the exclusion of NGO rescues from situations of instrumentalization of migration, which, according to the legislation, would trigger the flow emergency. During the public session devoted to the Pact negotiations, Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi did not speak. Leaving the Brussels Council without making any statements to the press, he traveled to Palermo for a meeting with his Tunisian and Libyan counterparts. Also, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, Spain's interior minister who now holds the rotating president of the EU Council, stated that there had been "an exchange of views" with "a large majority agreeing on the general orientation." However, the anticipated agreement did not materialize. (Photo by Max Cavallari)
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