Italy Keeps Up Its Policy on Immigrants
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Defying criticism by human rights groups, Italy on Tuesday prepared to return to Libya hundreds of illegal immigrants who have landed on its southern shores in the past days.
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The government is about to announce it will keep tight restrictions on the number of Romanians and Bulgarians who can work in the country despite a review of the policy, The Times newspaper reported Saturday.
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Italy's Interior Minister visits Libya to pave the way for joint efforts to curb illegal immigration into the EU.
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Papers across Europe remain transfixed by the row over Italy&#39;s nominee for the post of European commissioner. Swiss papers look at the implications of an expected influx of workers from the European Union&#39;s
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ROME, Oct 18  (IPS) - The rapid expansion of a slum built by illegal  immigrants in the eastern part of Rome  shows the ineffectiveness  of a strict anti-immigration policy.
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Around 400 illegal immigrants flocked onto the Italian island of Lampedusa, bringing to more than 800 the number of boat-people landing on the tiny Mediterranean outpost in a 24-hour period, a coastguard ...
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Italy's prime minister Romano Prodi, who resigned earlier this week, has won the backing from parties in his ruling coalition to continue in office, his spokesman said on Friday.
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PADUA, Sep 5 (IPS) - 'Stop the Wall', say the posters on the  three-metre high metal panels that have come up to  isolate the  migrant estate on Anelli Road from their surroundings in Padua.
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Italian prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, has extolled the use of plastic surgery and hair transplants as means to keep the older generations young at heart.
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Italian Labor Minister Roberto Maronion Saturday defended his view that businesses should employ jobless Italians rather than immigrants, adding that Italy has enough immigrant workers.
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Italy says it has no intention of withdrawing its troops from Iraq despite the demands of kidnappers who seized an Italian journalist.
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European nations, juggling the need to fight unemployment, fill a dearth of skilled labour and combat illegal immigration and labour, are one-by-one adopting legislation aimed at handpicking the immigrants they need.
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Italy's center-left leaders have agreed to back Romano Prodi's bid to stay on as prime minister, boosting his chances of ending a crisis that risks plunging the country into political paralysis.Comment
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A new migration deal between Italy and Libya has stopped thousands of people reaching Italian shores illegally, Italy's interior minister has said.
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Illegal immigrants in Italy earning a few  coins by washing windscreens at traffic lights could face up to  three months in jail after Florence launched a crackdown and  other cities said they might follow suit.
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Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is aiming to make cooperation with Libya a model for Europe's efforts to stem a tide of illegal immigration from Africa, but further talks are still needed between Tripoli, Rome and the EU to resolve the crisis.
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Following a wave of criticism from opposition parties and human rights organisations, Italy has stopped its wholesale deportation from Lampedusa of more than 1,300 refugees to Libya, where Italy believes they have come from.