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Migrants await winter in the Italian town of Ventimiglia (Photo: Agostino Loffredi/Oxfam)

'Calais of Italy' mayor pleads with MEPs for help

"Extremely difficult" migration situations, like the one happening now in the Italian town of Ventimiglia, can be properly addressed only through a reform of the so-called 'Dublin' regulation, the town's mayor Enrico Ioculano told the European Parliament on Wednesday (6 December).

Ventimiglia is a town on the border between Italy and France, one of the transit points from where migrants try to reach the rest of Europe from Italy, and has turned into a bottleneck after the reintroduction...

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