May 5, 2016
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi decried on Thursday the “unjustified” proposal from Vienna to erect a fence at Austria’s alpine border with Italy to stem the flow of migrants into the country. “We expressed our total opposition to, and, in some ways, our shock over the position that has been taken by our Austrian friends,” said Renzi at a joint press conference with Merkel in Rome, calling the plan “mistaken” and “anachronistic.” “I will do all that is possible so that problems are solved in ways other that through border closures,” the chancellor added.
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