A rapid reaction team set up by the EU's border agency and aimed at safeguarding the bloc's external borders began work on Lampedusa on Thursday (3 Aug), Italy's interior ministry said.
Three officials from the EU's Frontex border agency arrived on the remote southern Mediterranean island the day before in response to appeals for EU assistance from interior minister Giuliano Amato.
The European unit is tasked with analysing the migrant landings in southern Italy and with organisin...
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