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The president acknowledged that both Italy and Germany had “heavy loads to bear” and called for a “fair distribution” of migratory burdens within Europe.

Italian authorities have recently started transferring some migrants to Sicily from the smaller island of Lampedusa, which is being overwhelmed by record arrival numbers.

The German president stressed his belief that Italy must not be left alone on questions of migration and thanked the country for having shown “so much humanitarian responsibility.”

Italy’s right-wing government has been criticized for passing decrees that curb migrants’ rights and hinder nonprofit rescue missions at sea.

The Interior Ministry said Italy was itself refusing to take back people whose asylum process Rome is responsible for under EU law.

Germany has taken in more than 1 million refugees from Ukraine, who go through a special asylum process that the EU introduced in light of Russia’s war.

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