In the Press: EU calls emergency summit as migrant deaths continue

Stories from today's national press

Bouquets of flowers arrived at the mortuary yesterday, to commemorate the migrants who died at sea over the past days
Bouquets of flowers arrived at the mortuary yesterday, to commemorate the migrants who died at sea over the past days

The Times of Malta

A joint press conference in Rome yesterday, with Italian PM Matteo Renzi and PM Joseph Muscat, has excluded the possibility of a boots-on-the-ground peacekeeping mission in Libya to stem the flow of migrants fleeing the region. They called for a clampdown on traffickers but declined to give much detail on concrete plans. 

In-Nazzjon

The Nationalist party has halved the disparity between itself and the Labour party, said PN leader Simon Busuttil in the wake of the local council election results, and pledged to continue narrowing the gap. 

L-Orizzont

All the pitkala - middlemen between farmers and purchasers - have paid the guarantee demanded by the government in order to retain their licenses to work. The highly contested reform was called unreasonable by the pitkala, who now must produce a bank guarantee before being allowed into the market. 

The Malta Independent

An urgent EU summit has been called for Thursday to discuss the influx of migrants and the huge loss of life at sea reported over the past week. A child was among the three victims when a migrant boat ran aground off the coast of Rhodes yesterday in the latest tragedy at sea.