Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said on Thursday that he had canceled his scheduled trip to France to meet with his French counterpart, Catherine Colonna, due to the French interior minister's criticism of Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni

French authorities failed the deadline to validate the asylum claims of all 234 migrants on board the Ocean Viking humanitarian ship and had to release more than half of them without any legal status, French media reported on Friday

Italy will propose a $103 billion support plan at the European level for countries of North Africa to solve the problem of illegal migration during the EU foreign ministers' meeting, Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani told Italian newspaper il Messaggero on Monday