The Lower House budget
committee on Wednesday approved a government amendment to its
budget bill, extending to December 2016 a tax exemption for the
Sicilian island of Lampedusa. The outlying island lies closer to
Tunisia than Sicily, and bears the brunt of the rescue and
reception of asylum seekers crossing the Mediterranean in a bid
to flee war and persecution in Africa and the Middle East.
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