Italy approves new measures to crack down on migrants

People thought to be migrants stand in a boat of the Italian Finance Police before disembarking at the port of the Sicilian island of Lampedusa, southern Italy, on Monday (Cecilia Fabiano/LaPresse via AP/PA)

The Italian government approved new measures to crack down on migration on Monday, after the southern island of Lampedusa was again overwhelmed by a wave of arrivals from Tunisia.

It came as the migration issue returned to centre stage in Europe with talk of a naval blockade.