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Premier Giorgia Meloni said Tuesday
that the situation regarding the arrival of large numbers of
migrants from North African was "explosive" and difficult to
address.
The interior ministry said Tuesday that 134,578 people have
arrived in Italy so far this year via migrant-boat landings,
almost double the 72,252 that arrived in the equivalent period
in 2022.
The premier stressed the importance of the government's Mattei
plan to boost energy partnerships with African countries and
cooperation on halting migrant flows.
"It is a strategic project that involves putting many things
together - the development of African countries in the face of
an explosive situation which makes governing migratory flows
extremely difficult," Meloni said at the Festival delle Regioni
event in Turin.
"It means giving Italy back the role it has in the
Mediterranean".
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