It „will be difficult if we pass on the problems to the other partners„, Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said yesterday, her guest Olaf Scholz at her side. This may be true, but that is exactly how European asylum policy has worked so far. The Mediterranean countries prefer to wave new arrivals northward, Germany, Austria and others insist that Italy and Greece are responsible, and naysayers like Hungary’s Viktor Orbán leave their mark as hardliners at the expense of others.