Giorgia Meloni: I won’t allow Italy to become ‘Europe’s refugee camp’
by Angela Giuffrida in Rome and Lisa O'Carroll in Bru from World news | The Guardian on (#6EXJ6)
Prime minister says Italy under incredible pressure' from large number of arrivals from north Africa
Italy's far-right prime minister has said she will not allow the country to become Europe's refugee camp", after thousands of people seeking refuge landed on its shores, prompting France to tighten controls at its border with Italy.
Giorgia Meloni told the UN general assembly meeting in New York that the huge numbers arriving in Lampedusa, a tiny Sicilian island that for years has been the first port of call for people crossing a perilous stretch of the Mediterranean Sea from north Africa, had placed Italy under incredible pressure".
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