Brussels, 15/03/2011 (Agence Europe) - On Monday 14 March, Italy was trying to cope with over 1,600 migrants according to figures from the Lampedusa harbour master's office cited by AFP. The European Commission announced the next day that it had requested Italian authorities to closely verify the potential refugee status of nearly 1,800 others, most of whom were of Moroccan origin, who arrived on Monday evening near the Italian coast on a Moroccan ferry from Libya that had been blocked by...