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Italy’s far-right interior minister Matteo Salvini on Thursday said Italy would not be pushed around at an emergency summit on migration, scheduled for Sunday in Brussels, after making threats to boycott the event.
Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte “will attend on Sunday”, Salvini said, despite casting doubting over Italy’s presence at the summit the day before.
“Either there is a useful proposal on the defence of borders, security and on the rights of true refugees or we dare to say no,” he said on Thursday.
Salvini’s earlier threats came after extracts from a draft of the concluding statement from the mini-summit circulated in the media.