Her comments follow a week in which more than 6,000 people arrived within a day from Tunisia on the island of Lampedusa.
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has vowed to take “extraordinary measures” to deal with an influx of migrants, including renewed calls for a naval blockade of North Africa.
Ms Meloni invited the head of the European Commission to visit Lampedusa with her to see the conditions and called for a new European Union migration deal with Tunisia to be put into effect. Lampedusa, which is closer to Africa than the Italian mainland, has been overwhelmed this week by thousands of people hoping to reach Europe from Tunisia, which has replaced Libya as the main base for migrant smuggling operations in the Mediterranean.
The influx has occurred despite an EU accord with Tunisia to stem the smuggling operations in exchange for economic assistance. Ms Meloni called for the accord to be made more tangible and for the promised EU funds to be transferred to Tunis.
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