Migrants: Meloni got 'fistful of fleas' from EU - Schlein

(ANSA) - ROME, MAR 27 - Democratic Party (PD) leader Elly Schlein said Monday that Premier Giorgia Meloni had obtained little from the European Union in terms of help in dealing with a big upswing in the arrival of migrants and refugees and told the government to end its "war" on NGOs that do search-and-rescue operations at sea.
    She told a meeting of PD lawmakers that Meloni should have asked the EU for a European version of the Mare Nostrum rescue operation the Italian State operated almost 10 years ago.
    "She came back from Brussels with a fistful of fleas", said Schlein, who also blasted the government's response to the February 26 migrant-boat disaster off the Calabrian town of Cutro in which at least 91 people died. (ANSA).