Italy’s new interior minister has defended his warning to the flag states of Germany and Norway over two migrant rescue ships operating in the Mediterranean. “I wanted to send a signal to reaffirm a principle: the responsibility of the flag states,” Matteo Piantedosi told Wednesday’s edition of the newspaper La Stampa. His ministry said on Tuesday that the German ship Humanity 1 and the Norwegian Ocean Viking were not acting in accordance with European and Italian security and border monitoring standards and the fight against illegal immigration. Ocean Viking’s crew rescued almost 60 men, wome…