Paolo Gentiloni Quotes

Within the E.U., in a wider context, people are increasingly recognising the need to prevent the abuse of free movement.

I'm against illegal migrants. Too many of them are dangerous for Italy and Europe.

If the Schengen system (of border-free travel) is destroyed, Europe will be seriously endangered politically and economically. That is why we Europeans have to invest billions in Turkey, Libya, Jordan and other countries in the region as quickly as possible everybody as much as they can.

Brexit must mean control of the number of people who come to Britain from Europe, and that is what I will deliver.

In the EU, we agree that the pressures causing migration must be reduced.

We must build a kind of United States of Europe.

France has imposed upon herself an average of more than 2 billion francs a year. This is the minimum price of armed peace for one country only …. Think what United Europe might have done with these millions, had she consecrated even half to the service of progress.

I believe that if we don't offer legal ways of emigrating to Europe and immigrating within Europe, we will be lost. If those who come - who are, generally speaking, the poor and needy - are no longer able to enter the house of Europe through the front door, they'll keep making their way in through the back windows.

There will be no use of military forces in immigration. There will be no - repeat, no - mass deportations.

The influx of migrants must be stopped.

Before we kill Schengen, we have to make Dublin work.

Soros wants to fill Italy and Europe with migrants.

We need to fight to prove to people that it is possible to form an E.U. migration policy that is in line with the Hungarian national interest.

If Europe's outer border is not blocked off, it makes no sense to speak of quotas.

The most important thing is that Europe has to remain united.

I ask our European partners for a truly European migration management. The burden of landings cannot weigh only on the countries of arrival.

The issue of migration has played a key role in all of our member states, wherever we are. Only we, as a European Union, can convince our citizens that we do have an answer to this - not deny migration, not pretend you can solve it by building fences and walls, not pretending we can solve it by letting everybody in.

Unfortunately, you need to keep Italian Roma in Italy.

The migratory phenomenon exists, and Europe will have to face it together. The only alternative is a 'beggar-thy-neighbor' solution, in which countries try to load the problem off on their neighbors.

When it's well managed, migration works in the national interest, for our communities, economy and country.

As responsible politicians, you have to manage migration.

A Europe without internal borders can only exist if it has functioning external borders.

We will continue our work on the Global Compact for safe, orderly, and regular migration.

We are protecting Europe according to European rules that say borders can be crossed only in certain areas in a controlled way and after registration.

What is the issue that has brought the European Union to the brink? The issue of migration.