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Lampedusa: 22,000 people have come in the past three months. Just two or three a day are going back (Photo: Valentina Pop)

EU border agency keen to send back more Tunisians

EU border agency Frontex is trying to put in place "as soon as possible" a new protocol with Tunisia on sending back irregular migrants, with the north African country so far taking back very few people from Italy.

Frontex chief Ilkka Laitinen told a groups of journalists in Brussels on Friday (9 April) that: "For the time being there have been no joint returns to Tunisia co-ordinated by Frontex, as we have no working arrangement with the relevant authority."

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Lampedusa: 22,000 people have come in the past three months. Just two or three a day are going back (Photo: Valentina Pop)

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