05/10/2023 (Agence Europe) – The European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA) announced in a press release on 5 October that it has begun the process of doubling the number of resources in Lampedusa as part of its redeployment of 50 people to southern Italy. “Depending on needs, the Agency is prepared to further increase deployments in the region with additional personnel”, the EUAA stated. In response to the increasing number of irregular migrant arrivals in southern Italy and as part of the agency’s immediate implementation of the European Commission’s 10-Point Plan announced on 17 September, the EUAA has initiated a substantive redeployment of personnel. This decision includes 16 deployments to Lampedusa—“more than doubling the number of EUAA personnel previously on the island, [which has risen] to 31”. (SP)