[LIVE] Italian prime minister Letta and Commissioner president Barroso in Lampedusa

Watch the live press conference from Lampedusa by the Italian prime minister and EU leaders here.

9 October 2013, 12:00am

The coffins of the dead asylum seekers who lost their lives in the Lampedusa shipwreck

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PROMISES , PROMISES, PROMISES AND PROMISES. How many times we have heard that the EU is to do some thing, one may recall when during a xmas period a vessel drowned with all hands between Malta and Sicily. Nothing happened since then.

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Italy is to recieve more money, for what ? To rescue them and then let them escape to northern Europe. Very clever indeed !! This money will be encouriging more buisness in human trafficking !