Funding the EU budget is an
obligation laid down in its founding treaties, Germany said
Monday on Italy's threat to withhold some of its payment unless
the EU agrees to take in migrants rescued by Italy.
EU budget funding "was ratified in the European treaties, and
it is valid for all," said Chancellor Angela Merkel's spokesman
Steffen Seibert.
Italy issued its threat last week regarding 177 migrants on
board the Diciotti coast guard ship, who have now been taken in
by the Italian Catholic Church, Ireland and Albania.
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