European nations cannot stop migration and need to manage the phenomenon through cooperation, Italy's prime minister Paolo Gentiloni said on Thursday.
"I believe the only thing we can't say or promise to European citizens is that we can end the major migrant influxes or eliminate them with who knows which magic formula," Gentiloni said.
"The problem is managing the problem, and doing so together, and in this respect the cooperation between France and Italy seems to me to be a model," Gentiloni added.
He was speaking to journalists at a press conference after a meeting with French president Emmanuel Macron at the prime minister's office in Rome.
European nations must "assume the responsibility" for managing migrant flows " in an organised way" and for removing these from the grip of criminal gangs, Gentiloni stressed.
