Italy’s right-wing government has declared a six-month national state of emergency to help it cope with a surge in migrants arriving on the country’s southern shores.
State TV said a special commissioner was expected to be named. Initial funding of €5 million was also approved as part of the measure approved by Premier Giorgia Meloni and her cabinet.
Also needed are “new structures, suitable both for sheltering as well as the processing and repatriation of migrants who don’t have the requisites to stay” in Italy, the government statement said. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has declared a state of emergency to help it cope with a surge in migrants arriving on the country’s southern shores.Italian coast guard boats had been escorting the distressed fishing vessel towards shore when a breakdown forced it to need towing, slowing its advance.
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