Giorgia Meloni has not cracked Italy’s migrant crisis. On the contrary, the number of migrants crossing the central Mediterranean is on the rise once more. A total of 47,313 migrants have crossed this year up to 12 September, which is 3,000 more than the same period in 2024.

The vast majority makes land on the island of Lampedusa, like the 228 who disembarked on the small Mediterranean island on Sunday. Their three boats had departed from Zawiya and Homs in Libya, and the passengers were predominantly Egyptians, Bangladeshis, Pakistanis, Ethiopians, and Eritreans. Lampedusa is struggling to cope with the numbers of arrivals despite a system of transferring the migrants to other reception centres in Italy.

Pope Leo’s ‘culture of reconciliation’ is a trite soundbite

According to a report

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