The following video shows excerpts from a press conference held by Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini during a G6 interior ministers’ meeting in Lyon on October 8.

Many thanks to FouseSquawk for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

Video transcript:

00:28 And therefore, we do it alone. I have had bilateral meetings with the Polish minister,

00:32 with the representatives of the American government,

00:35 with the British minister, therefore

00:38 If Brussels doesn’t take care of it, we’ll take care of it alone, making agreements two on two.

00:43 I have also spoken with my German colleague. A plane that was supposed to arrive from Berlin this week

00:48 will not arrive. And then we talk about everything.

00:52 I repeat: it is important that Italy no longer be considered

00:56 a refugee camp, as was happening up to a few months ago.

01:15 Yes. It is a motive I don’t understand, why Macron

01:19 accused me and the Italian government of racism and egoism.

01:24 All of the ministers who were at the table today supported the Italian idea

01:28 that economic refugees cannot be accepted in Europe,

01:32 that in Europe are arriving regularly, legally those who are escaping war.

01:36 The most recent data I can give you for Italy is that from Naples, which I visited

01:40 last week, where from July to today, of the hundreds of applications examined

01:46 they have recognized the right to remain in Italy for eight persons out of 100.

01:50 Eight out of 100. Therefore that means that we have interrupted a business

01:54 which surely has enriched some,

01:58 but impoverishes Europe, and if Macron is on the same line,

02:02 let’s fight the same battle. Perhaps he’ll occasionally

02:08 re-open the border at Ventimiglia and stop insulting us.

02:15 One thing at a time. It is now October. It is clear that in May, finally 500 million Europeans

02:19 will be able to change the history of Europe.

02:23 But for the time being it is important for me to change the history of Italy.

02:27 Then in May, we’ll think about it. For certain, the socialists and the left will go home.

02:31 This is for sure.

02:45 Today, on the table, more than one colleague invoked the Australian model

02:49 as a model for stopping the flow, which is exactly the model

02:53 on which I am working, on which the Italian government, therefore I must say,

02:57 while up to four months ago we were

03:01 “racists, “egoists”, “populists”, “ignorant chauvinists”,

03:04 the Italian model for handling immigration

03:08 and closing the ports when needed is now instructive.

03:17 Very good. Sustaining [unintelligible] of immigration we are preparing a common mission

03:21 in Nigeria, which is for Italy, one of the most problematic countries,

03:25 because almost 60,000 immigrants have arrived from Nigeria in recent years,

03:29 and we have succeeded in expelling only a few hundred.

03:33 Therefore to have serious and concrete agreements with Nigeria, with the help