We did everything humanly possible and even a bit more.

Matteo Salvini

Dear German government, I'm not reopening the ports ... if anything we're going to put ... (the migrants) in a car and take them to the German embassy, if someone is used to considering Italy a dumping site for all the problems Europe pretends not to see, that's over. And this applies to the French and the Dutch.

I'm not authorizing people who ignore Italian laws and help human traffickers to disembark.

They refused water so that they could declare the state of emergency ... we won't be intimidated.

She tried to sink a police launch with officers on board at night, they say were saving lives, but they risked killing these human beings who were doing their job, its clear from the videos.

We will continue to hunt down Morabito, wherever he is, to throw him in jail as he deserves.

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At a time when European Union institutions are fragile and changing significantly, Italy wants to be the first, most solid, valid, credible and coherent partner for the United States.

We will try to convince the EU with numbers and by being polite. But we will cut taxes regardless and they are just going to have to get used to the idea.

All's well, it was a good meeting. Our shared goal is to avoid the infringement while safeguarding economic growth, employment, as well as tax cuts, there won't be any budget correction nor tax increases.

We dont want to fight with anyone. We are not interested in polemics. We are concrete people and we defend the interests of Italians.

The Mediterranean is not only about Italy, Greece or Spain. But Germany France too. And Germany France has to do Germany France part.

The latest shipwreck is proof that if you reopen the ports more people will die.

What is certain is that for Italy there is no plan to take back who has gone abroad. It's the last thing that could happen, if the Germans and the Austrians are thinking only about sending migrants back to us, helping us close the external borders first would be a step forward.

Our position is to block in any way possible the trafficking of human beings, we've done more than anyone else (to take in sea borne migrants). That's enough. It's someone else's turn.

The goal is to change Europe and give voice to those populations that are cut down by those who only ever cared about financial outcomes and the multinationals and who have offered us a future of precariousness and fear.

The fewer people set sail, the fewer die.

You( Lifeline) did a show of strength by contravening the indications of the Italian and Libyan coast guard. Now, you'll carry this human load to the Netherlands.

There are those who talk and those who act.

I want to save lives but I’m paid by Italians to defend thesafety of Italian citizens. I don’t accept there are organizations ofpseudo-volunteers that endanger the lives of those who flee Africa and thenthink to disembark them all in Italy.

You did a show of strength by contravening the indications of the Italian and Libyan coastguard. Now, you'll carry this human load to the Netherlands, i want to save lives but I'm paid by Italians to defend the safety of Italian citizens. I don't accept there are organizations of pseudo-volunteers that endanger the lives of those who flee Africa and then think to disembark them all in Italy.

I am having the Interior Ministry prepare a dossier on the Roma situation in Italy, we will try to understand how we can intervene, doing what years ago was called the census, we can now call it the registry or the situation, a picture -- to understand what we are dealing with.