Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Monday she was convening a ministerial panel for national security to improve her government's response to a surge in migrant arrivals.
Italy has been struggling to accommodate arrivals from North Africa and the Balkans and the country's Red Cross called on Monday for more international efforts against migration "chaos".
"Our aim is to tackle the problem in a pragmatic way, with rapid and coordinated decisions," Meloni, who has made the fight against illegal immigration a cornerstone of her political career, said in a statement. "I have been dealing with problems related to migrants since the 1990s, I have seen everything and more, but I could not imagine such a thing. The city is in an emergency," he said.
The statistics showed a spike over the last three days, with about 2,300 arrivals on Friday, more than 3,000 on Saturday, and almost 1,000 on Sunday.In Lampedusa, incoming sea migrants are crammed in a so-called "hotspot" with an official capacity of a few hundred places, before being transferred to the larger island of Sicily.
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