Matteo Salvini Quotes

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

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.

We must set up large refugee camps outside the E.U. with armed security and financial support provided by the Union.

We need not to just kill the boat-smuggling business model: we also need to get rid of this asylum-shopping in the European Union.

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

Every country in the E.U. should make a personnel and a financial contribution in that area. We shouldn't leave alone countries like Italy and Greece that have external borders; rather, we must make the external borders safe together.

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.

We need to shift our focus from the debates about redistributing refugees within the E.U. and should concentrate more on external border protection.

Regarding the visa-free regime, it has undoubtedly become a problem for the European Union, above all in terms of its capacity to reach agreements.

The U. S.'s moral responsibility to accept immigrants is not unlimited.

The unregulated migration of hundreds of thousands of refugees from terrorist safe havens in Syria, Iraq, and Libya has created a very difficult threat environment for Europe.

It shouldn't be the asylum seekers wondering which country they want go to. It should be Europe telling them where to be, be it Lithuania, Sweden, or wherever.

It's great that Trump has engendered a heated debate over illegal immigration and our open borders.

Behind mass immigration, there is terrorism.

Whatever threats Remain may continue to fire at us, they cannot answer the simple and most basic proposition: that only by leaving the European Union can we control the numbers coming to our country.

The influx of migrants must be stopped.

I got to tell you, when I wrote 'Adios America,' I thought there was a 10 percent chance of saving the country.

In 2015, the majority of refugees and migrants reached the European Union through Greece. Greek authorities were overwhelmed by the sheer number of people arriving at their shores. But they did not stay there. They were waved through to Central Europe at an increasing pace.

Soros wants to fill Italy and Europe with migrants.

We apply the catechism by opening Italy's doors to women and children who come here legally on aeroplanes, but no more men on rubber dinghies. We will help them grow up and work in their own countries. Let's spend in Africa the money that needs to be spent.

In Greece, refugees are being waved through to the heart of Europe. That is simply unacceptable in the long run. The European Union cannot act like a human trafficker.

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.

I think people are justifiably fed up of hearing migration talked about at the E.U. level but not seeing anything happen in practice.