Italy now main entry point for EU migrants
Italy: Italy has replaced Greece as the main point of entry
for illegal migrants to the EU, with numbers more than doubling in the
first quarter of 2011.
Frontex, the EU borders agency, said 32,906 migrants had arrived in
the first three months, two-thirds of them on the Italian island of
Lampedusa. The Greek-Turkish border had become the main entry-point
after Spain and Italy clamped down last year. But numbers to Italy
surged back amid unrest in Libya and Tunisia. BBC
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