Rome pushes for immigration quotas

Italy’s interior minister Giuseppe Pisanu has restated his wish to have European quotas on the number of immigrants coming from countries outside the EU.

At a meeting this afternoon (29 August) in Rimini, Italy, Mr Pisanu said that this move is necessary to resolve the problem of illegal immigration.

Although the Italian Presidency supports this idea, it is likely to be met with reservations from most of the EU countries, most notably Germany, which wants immigration policy to rem...