ON Italy’s southernmost island, Lampedusa, thousands of migrants crowded a reception centre built for 600 as small boats hailing from Tunisia kept arriving. Outside Rome, a bus carrying migrants en route to a centre in the north from Sicily crashed into a truck, killing the drivers of both vehicles and injuring 19 migrants.
The huge challenges posed by immigration were in the spotlight again in Italy, undermining the efforts of the far-right ruling coalition led by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni to show that she had made progress in dissuading migrants from coming.
