Italy and France agree migrants must be distributed around the EU

ROME - The European Union must introduce a new, automatic system of taking in migrants saved from the Mediterranean, the leaders of Italy and France said on Wednesday , as they sought to patch up bruised bilateral relations.

But French President Emmanuel Macron has leapt on the fact that a new, pro-European government has taken office in Italy to try to reset ties and resolve the long-standing row. Conte said he had received French backing for a system to handle the redistribution of migrants, meaning that Italy could rely on the entire 28-nation bloc to accept automatically a share of all the new arrivals as soon as they were rescued.

League leader Matteo Salvini, who quit the government last month, enabling the pro-European Democratic Party to take its place within the cabinet, has accused France of reneging on previous migrant deals and said Conte was being naive. In February, Paris withdrew its ambassador to Rome for the first time since World War Two after Di Maio met members of France's"yellow vest" movement, which has mounted sometimes violent protests against Macron's liberal economic reforms.

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