Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni says Europe needs a 'paradigm change' to cope with a series of factors in Africa that she warns could spur millions of people to risk their lives to come to Europe.
Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni says Europe needs a "paradigm change" to cope with a series of factors in Africa that she warns could spur millions of people to risk their lives to come to Europe.Migrants gather in the harbour of Italian island of Lampedusa, before being transferred to Porto Empedocle in Sicily region. / Photo: AFP
Meloni invited the head of the European Commission on Friday to visit Lampedusa with her to see the conditions firsthand and called for a new European Union migration deal with Tunisia to be put into effect. "Obviously, Italy and Europe cannot welcome this massive influx of people, especially when these migrant flows are being managed by unscrupulous traffickers," she said.
The Italian Red Cross said that around 700 new arrivals had been transferred off Lampedusa on Thursday, and 2,500 more transfers were planned for Friday to try to relieve pressure on the island’s refugee centre, which has a normal capacity of around 400 people.
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