The leader of the right-wing League party, Matteo Salvini, has attacked the government during a visit to the migrant hosting center of Lampedusa, accusing it of being an "accomplice of smugglers".
Italian authorities have placed 56 people under investigation, arrested one person and placed four others under mandatory residence following an investigation into arranged marriages with Italian citizens to enable South American an1
Hundreds of people continue to arrive in boats on the southern Italian island of Lampedusa. In recent days about a thousand migrants, most from Tunisia, have landed on the island.
83 migrants, including more than a dozen sick children, have been flown to Germany from Greece. The migrants are the latest group to be relocated from overcrowded Greek camps under a government commitment to shelter hundreds of vuln1
Germany will support a new European effort to stop migrants arriving in Europe. The joint platform will focus mainly on migrants trying to enter via Turkey and Greece.