The new U.N. human rights chief, Michelle Bachelet, on Monday announced plans to send teams to Italy and Austria to examine the treatment of migrants, drawing a quick retort from Vienna and Rome after her first big appearance in the job. The rebuttals from two key Europe Union states — Austria now holds the rotating EU presidency — suggested Bachelet is already ruffling governmental feathers after becoming High Commissioner for Human Rights on Sept. 1. She didn't mention sending teams to Austria and Italy in shorter oral remarks to the council in Geneva. "Italy in the last years has accepted 700,000 immigrants, many of them clandestine, and has never received the collaboration of other European countries," he added. The conservative leader added that the check was ordered by a "former socialist politician and member of the Socialist International."

Source: ABC News September 10, 2018 14:09 UTC