AFPEmployees of the Italian Coast Guard NOS News•today, 12:26•Changed today, 12:38 Another migrant boat arrived in the port on the Italian island of Lampedusa last night. After a few relatively quiet days, 347 migrants came ashore. According to authorities, they come from Egypt, Syria, Pakistan and Bangladesh, among others, and the boat left the Libyan … Read more
EPAA group of migrants on Lampedusa near a Red Cross tent NOS Nieuws•vandaag, 13:18 The Italian Red Cross is worried on the humanitarian conditions on the island of Lampedusa. There were more than 6,000 migrants on this island this morning, while officially only 440 can stay there. Yesterday more than 5,000 people arrived in more … Read more
The visit of Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi, who went to the Lampedusa hotspot together with the European Commissioner for Internal Affairs Ylva Johansson, was welcomed partly with warmth and partly with criticism, who was keen to underline, right away, that “no EU member state should be left alone, the European Union is already doing something … Read more