Migrants, Macron-Merkel pact for quotas. “But whoever comes from Italy will be sent back”

PARIS – BERLIN – It was the last Franco-German ministerial council in the long era of Angela Merkel’s chancellorship. But at the end of the afternoon of talks, the German leader stressed yesterday that “it will not be the last challenge” she will face with French President Emmanuel Macron. Perhaps the most difficult is the immigration dossier, which has been the subject of close triangulations with Italy in recent weeks.