ITALY SAVES 3,300 REFUGEES WITHIN HOURS

The flow of refugees towards Sicily does not stop. Ships of the Italian Navy for over 24 hours in continuous use and have already saved more than 3,300 migrants, reported the Italian news agency ANSA on Saturday. Most migrants come from Syria and are expected to arrive in the next few hours in Sicily.
Among the refugees were several toddlers and very pregnant women. Two migrants in poor health were flown by helicopter to Lampedusa, Italian media reported. On the island of Lampedusa met a 271 migrants from Eritrea, including twelve children.


Northern League for the end of the mission "Mare Nostrum"
44,000 migrants have achieved since the beginning of the Italian coast. The Italian Interior Ministry warned recently that 800,000 people in Libya are waiting to depart in the direction of Italy. Populist parties are pushing in Italy on one end of the mission "Mare Nostrum" to the rescue of refugees in distress. The bailout would promote human trafficking across the Mediterranean, argues, among other things, the right-wing populist Lega Nord.

Lega- Chef Matteo Salvini urged Brussels to put pressure on the UN to make this the management of those refugee camps take over in Libya from which to break the people towards Europe. Also, the EU border agency Frontex should increasingly used, called Salvini.
The government Renzi wants to stick to the humanitarian mission "Mare Nostrum", but calls for support from the EU. Italy, which from 1 July the EU takes over as Chairman, will the refugee issue high on its EU position Agenda.

Italian government: "All EU countries will pay high price "
"All EU Member States are paying a high price for the lack of a common immigration policy. too EU countries without access to the Mediterranean, understand now, which are high costs associated with the lack of a common strategy on refugees. countries like Sweden are after the mass arrivals of recent months flooded with asylum applications, "explained the Italian State Secretary for European Policy, Sandro Gozi.
Italy could no longer cope alone the influx of refugees. "While we continue the mission imare Nostrum ì away because we really can not let migrants drowning in the Mediterranean. However, we require that 'Mare Nostrum' a pan-European use is," said Gozi.