article_snippet.sent: In the wake of the tragedies, Italy has pressed the European Union to devise plans to stop the tide of migrants on smuggler boats in the Mediterranean.
article_snippet.sent: Italy has pressed the European Union to devise plans to stop the tide of migrants on smuggler boats in the Mediterranean .
article_snippet.sent: Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi has urged the European Union to craft long-range, comprehensive policy on the migrants.
article_snippet.sent: But Italy's 'noble, generous reaction alone isn't enough', Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi said. '
article_snippet.sent: We are asking Europe to be Europe,
article_snippet.sent: Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi said broad, long-term EU strategy, with wider sea patrols and a robust presence in southern Libya, would help combat '21st-century slave drivers' of migrants.
article_snippet.sent: The defence minister said that it would then be up to all EU countries to take all EU countries share of migrants found eligible for refugee status or asylum.
article_snippet.sent: Because Italy is the first EU country the migrants set foot in, Mr Renzi and Ms Pinotti
article_snippet.sent: Mr Renzi delivers Mr Renzi speech on the eve of an EU emergency summit on migrants at the Lower Chamber in Rome .