EU boss Von der Leyen refers to Italy’s Lampedusa island as a refugee for migrants | Buitenland

UpdateUrsula von der Leyen, head of the European Commission, is from the Italian island of Lampedusa. The island was built on the large toestry of migrants via the Middellandse Zee.

The Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is now the European commissioner from the Lampedusa region and comes with an idea for the “seriousness of the situation”. Meloni zal naar wachting with Von der Leyen meereizen on the southern island of Italy. The interior ministers of Italy, France and Germany also discussed the crisis by telephone with the Eurocommissars for the interior Zaken.

Every week there were 200 boats on the island, with a board for 8,500 people. The island has a migrant population of less than 7,000 residents. Then there were sea migrants in residents of the island, after which the opvangcentrum had a small population of four hundred people. The gemeenteraad riep on Wednesday and also the noodtoestand uit.

According to the EU rules, migrants should apply in the first EU country in the area. Lampedusa, from Tunisia to Sicily, has many boats with migrants. The sample namelijk vanuit North-Afrika om Europe te bereiken. De overtocht staat bekend als levensgevaarlijk. Maar door de armoede, honger en geweld in various Afrikaanse landen zijn tienduizenden bereid dat risico te nemen.

Volgens Rome puts the very best print on Italy and other lands on the borders of the United Kingdom. This year there were 127,000 migrants by boat from the coast of Italy. This is just a dubbeling vereleken with the previous year.

A boat with migrants for the coast of the Italian island of Lampedusa. © ANP / EPA

Dode baby op migrant boat

The oversteek of Africa to the Italian island suffers from hard-wearing tables. This day the Italian police took over a baby that was encountered on a boat with migrants. The order is based on the plaatselijke media tijdens and reddingsoperatie on the island of Lampedusa. The child was born in the age of over 100 years. They were verder ongeveer very migranten aan boord.

Every week there was also a baby on the sea.



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