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| Flood of North African refugees to Italy ends EU passport-free travel |
| 2011-05-14 |
| If Gaddafi can keep sending 2000 "refugees" per day for the next two months, he should have the EU on bended knee begging to surrender to him, so as to stop the boats. Six more boatloads of migrants, mostly Libyans, arrived at the Italian island of Lampedusa yesterday, exacerbating a refugee crisis that already appears to have ended the long-standing Schengen arrangement for passport-free movement around Europe. In Italy, which has born the brunt of waves of migrants fleeing turmoil first in Tunisia and now Libya, key members of the government were again warning about the repercussions of Nato's bombing campaign across the Mediterranean. "For this reason we have continually pressed for a strong diplomatic response to the situation in Libya," said Italy's interior minister Roberto Maroni, of the anti-immigration Northern League party, who has repeatedly called for an end to Italy's role in Nato air raids. "Otherwise there is no way to stop the boats." Ignazio Accomando, from the National Institute for the Health of Migrants, told the Ansa news agency: "About 2,000 migrants are expected to arrive on the island. They are tired, worn out, dehydrated and with some bruises, but overall there are no particularly grave health cases." |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #1 You think the Amerisocialist can pick up on what their much admired and copied Eurosocialists have figured out in weeks? Nah. Red to the grave. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2011-05-14 15:34 |