George Soros says EU should compensate Italy over migration
by Haroon Siddique and Lorenzo Tondo in Palermo from on (#3RHK0)
Strong showing of far-right parties partly due to Europe's 'flawed' migration policies
The billionaire philanthropist and financier George Soros has called for the EU to compensate Italy for migrants landing there, as the country's hardline new interior minister made his first official trip a provocative one, to one of their main arrival points.
Matteo Salvini, the far-right leader of the League, travelled to the port of Pozzallo in Sicily on Sunday, with a blunt warning that migrants "should get ready to pack their bags".