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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9885

21 April 2009
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/jha
Italy accepts 140 migrants - Commission calls for greater solidarity among states

Brussels, 20/04/2009 (Agence Europe) - Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini announced on Sunday 19 April that Italy had agreed to take in the 140 illegal migrants saved from shipwreck by a Turkish merchant vessel off the coast of Malta. The Italian government “decided that humanitarian concerns should prevail,” said Frattini on state television, noting, however, that “Malta should have accepted them”. Malta and Italy had previously each put the responsibility for accepting the...

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