Italy plays role of Europe's immigration gatekeeper
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Italy wants the rest of the Continent to stiffen border patrols and asylum guidelines.
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ROME -- Italy planned to send back more illegal immigrants Monday, after hundreds of people arrived over the weekend on a tiny island off the coast of Sicily, news reports said.
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Italian police have apprehended more than 650 illegal immigrants in southern Italy in what is reported to be one of the largest daily influxes of third world migrants.
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The EU announces new measures to attract skilled labour from Africa and curb illegal immigration.
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Italy is defending a tough new policy on illegal immigrants, which has put hundreds of new arrivals from sub-Saharan Africa on planes back to Libya without the opportunity to apply for asylum.
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The EU will open its first job centre in Africa, to prevent migrants risking their lives by entering Europe illegally.
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ROME, Oct 31 (IPS) - Regular migrants have reached 6.2 percent of the  population of Italy, above the European average of 5.6 percent.  In the next 20-30 years, Italy is destined to become one of the  EU countries with the highest population of migrants and people  of migrant origin -- more that 10 million -- according to an  annual report on migrations released Tuesday.
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The EU plans joint naval patrols with Libya to curb the flow of illegal immigrants to Malta and Italy.
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LONDON Millions of migrants, often from Asia and North Africa, are changing the face of Europe and prompting officials of the European Union to try to develop a common immigration policy.
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Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is preparing this week to both reshuffle his shaky coalition government and name a new appointee to the European Commission, with his foreign minister seen likely to get the nod to go to Brussels.
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The move by the Italian government could help prepare the countryÂs flagship carrier to be taken over by Air France-KLM.
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LAMPEDUSA, Italy - The barbed wire has gone and the dormitories look basic but reasonably clean. Welcome to the new-look camp for immigrants on the island of Lampedusa.
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Italian authorities found a boatload of almost 500 illegal immigrants traveling from North Africa to Sicily, prompting the government to press Libya for more cooperation in fighting the flow of unlawful arrivals here.
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Key EU interior ministers are to meet in Florence to discuss plans for migrant holding centres outside Europe.
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Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is expected in Libya for talks on how to tackle illegal mass migration from North Africa.
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The EU is presenting a 'blue card' that would aim to attract skilled workers to Europe and regulate immigration.
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"If Europe wants to play an important role in the contemporary world, decisions should be taken fast to enable it to play that role"  Decisions should be taken fast to enable Europe to play an important role in the world, Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi said during his one-day working visit to Poland on Wednesday. via People's Daily Online