[I don't care about the deaths of the so-called migrants. I am glad Italy is keeping people out. That's the right thing to do. Jan]

• This is the first time that a court of justice in Europe has been called upon to try a governmental minister — who is actually supposed to responsible for the security of a country — for holding migrants at a port pending a redistribution of newcomers across Europe…. Until then, Europe had never offered Italy the slightest help.
• Italy’s political ruling class, which for years has adopted as its migration policy the total surrender to illegal floods of immigrants