In managing migration, the European Union can learn from Latin America's solidarity towards crisis-hit Venezuelans, Italy's president Sergio Mattarella said on Monday.
"Over two million Venezuelans who have fled their country have found temporary asylum in neighbouring countries," Mattarella said at the opening of a new immigrant centre in Rome.
In his remarks, Mattarella praised the way Latin American countries had come together to take joint action to help Venezuelan migrants.
"It is a significant initiative that is also a reminder and a lesson for the EU, which has still not forged a joint policy to handle a global phenomenon (migration)," Mattarella said.
About three million people have fled Venezuela amid acute economic problems during the six-year rule of leftist president Nicolas Maduro.
There has been an upsurge in violence in recent weeks against Maduro's swearing-in for a second term in January following his re-election in contested May 2018 polls and opposition leader Juan Guaido has declared himself interim president in an escalating standoff.
