VENTIMIGLIA - French far-right Front National leader Marine Le Pen on Monday urged a bilateral agreement between Italy and France on migration issues.



So long as Italian authorities continue to comply with orders from the EU, she said, ''it will be impossible to eliminate the problem on clandestine migration and the only way to regulate the phenomenon is a bilateral agreement between Italy and France to stop the migrant boats, secure them and take them back''. Le Pen was speaking at the Ventimiglia border crossing between Italy and France in response to a question on what her message was to Italian authorities in order to curb the phenomenon. ''It is necessary to radically change policies because for every time a clandestine migrant sets foot in the EU, there are at least ten others who are trying to do the same things,'' the far-right French presidential candidate stressed, adding that it was a catastrophic situation resulting in ''3,000 deaths in the Mediterranean Sea''.