Italy's call for France and Spain to open ports to migrants is rejected

EU high representative refuses to give backing despite threat to pull plug on rescue mission A call by Italy for France and Spain to offer up their ports for the disembarkation of migrants rescued in the Mediterranean has failed to garner the backing of EU member states, despite Rome's threat to pull the plug on the EU's Operation Sophia rescue mission. Hijacking a meeting of defence ministers in Vienna, the Italian representative, Elisabetta Trenta, called the ports where rescue ships dock to b...