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The Italian Ambassador to the UK agreed the actions of some EU member states has been not good enough as they attempt to manage migrants.

Italy has been forced to take drastic measures, including threatening to turn rescue boats away from its ports.

Speaking to Channel 4 News, Pasquale Terracciano admitted that his country could not cope on its own with the migrant crisis.

He said: There is a limit and we have now reached it. It is rather odd that we have a rather international operation for rescuing people in the Mediterranean and they are only disembarked in Italian ports, never in some other nations ports.

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We are simply alerting the international community that if they do not act, if there is no solidarity, there will be a situation where our ports will be overwhelmed.

Even if we dont block them the situation will be untenable.

The Italian Ambassador claimed that there was a sense of despair within public opinion in attempting to deal with the crisis.

He added: There is a lot of solidarity and the whole country is still showing a lot of solidarity, but at the same time there is anger that we are left alone.

There is a limit and we have now reached it

Pasquale Terracciano

There were 160,000 migrants that had to be relocated, only 6,600 have been relocated so far.

As Matt Frei responded by claiming thatthe Czech Republichave taken 12 migrants and Poland and Hungry have not taken any, he said: Not good enough?, to which Mr Terracciano quipped back saying No.

Germany and France have finally agreed to increase their relocation efforts of migrants from Italy.

Eurostat figures show Germany has so filled 6,400 of the 8,250 places it has so far formally pledged, with 2,947 of those people coming from Italy. However, it is still well short of its overall allocation of 20,736 set by Brussels.

France, meanwhile, has so far pledged 5,490 places of which it has filled 3,779 - but only 330 of those came from Italy. Paris is due to take in 19,714 migrants under calculations made by eurocrats.

The European Union has warned member states all countries must take their share of migrants, but a number of central European countries, inparticular, Poland and Hungary, have refused.

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Refugees and migrants wait in a small rubber boat to be rescued off Lampedusa, Italy

The countries have been warned that they mayloseEuropean Union funding if they do not accept their share of migrants.

Former Polish Prime Minister, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, leader of the ruling Law and Justice Party (PiS), said Poland should not be forced to accept migrants.

He said: As for the use of the European funds, they also benefit the [western] businesses and those countries are cashing in on them.

The [western] enterprises located in Poland transfer tens of billions of zlotys every year without paying any taxes.

On Saturday, he added: We have not exploited the countries from which these refugees are coming to Europe these days, we have not used their labour force and finally we have not invited them to Europe.

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