[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.

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