Lisbon – “The European Union has not been able to provide effective emergency responses to the increase of migration flows, while the most exposed member states haven’t been able to handle the problem by themselves. There was no strategy: we have faced this phenomenon with partial, seasonal approaches, trying to stem the tide without dealing with its complex implications in the medium-long term.” Senate President Pietro Grasso spoke today in Lisbon at the Summit of Speakers of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean. (9colonne)