European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni are set to visit Lampedusa on Sunday after the latter invited the former come and see scale of the migrant emergency for herself. © ANSA
- ROME, SEP 16 - European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni are set to visit Lampedusa on Sunday after the latter invited the former come and see scale of the migrant emergency for herself.
Around 127,000 migrants have entered Italy so far this year, approximately twice as many as in the same period in 2022. She said the maximum time that asylum seekers can be kept at reception centres will remain at 12 months. French President Emmanuel Macron will speak to Meloni about the issue of migrants, French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne told Bfm TV on Saturday.
On Friday Faeser said the mechanism had been suspended because "Italy has shown no willingness to take people back through the Dublin procedure", but she immediately added that:"now, of course, it is clear that we also fulfill our obligation of solidarity", DPA reported. Around 100 residents of Lampedusa, including Deputy Mayor Attilio Lucia of the League party, on Saturday halted traffic towards the town hall in protest over a rumour that a tent camp for migrants was being set up at the former Loran military base on the island. There was also tension at the island's migrant hotspot as people there protested at long waits to be transferred off the island. The baby died shortly after his mother gave birth to him on the boat, the sources said.
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