Italy to Press Germany on NGO Migrant Deal at Berlin Talks

Italy's Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi is preparing to propose a new crackdown on NG Os at a September meeting with his German counterpart Alexander Dobrindt in Berlin, as Rome seeks to negotiate a compensation mechanism between so-called "dublinanti" migrants and those rescued by humanitarian ships. The bilateral meeting comes amid ongoing tensions over migration policy, with the Italian government pushing for a system that would balance the number of migrants who arrive on Italian shores and then move on to other European countries against those rescued by NGO vessels.