"Italy can not do this alone." Roberto Maroni has expressed concerns about the situation in Libya after the meeting in Brussels with other EU ministers of the Interior. "Italy - said the head of the Interior Ministry - can deal with the emergency caused by the immigrant riots in North Africa but not for long." Italy, he added, "fears of a catastrophic humanitarian crisis." The Defence Minister, Ignazio La Russa, has intervened in an attempt to stop the controversy about the provision of weapons by Italy.