Despite promising a crackdown, right-wing Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has seen arrivals triple this year Italian authorities brought 1,650 predominantly African and Middle Eastern migrants ashore before dawn on Saturday, depositing them in already overcrowded shelters. One day earlier, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni announced stiffer penalties for traffickers, in a bid to reduce arrival numbers…
A court in Bastia ruled only French could legally be spoken in the island’s political offices Corsicans have come out in force to denounce Thursday’s verdict banning the use of the Corsican language (known as Corsu) in parliament and other political offices after a court in the city of Bastia cited the French constitution in…
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