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Italian Deputy Prime Minister to cut migrant funding and redirect the cash to poor Italians instead




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Italy’s hugely popular Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini, the leader of the populist ‘League Party’, has said that the country’s government will cut the 5 Billion euros a year spent on migrants and instead spend it helping the 5 million Italians living in poverty, Bloomberg has reported.

The country is still on alert for a potential re-run of its March General Election and the nationalist League Party, which is currently the junior partner to the Five Star Movement party looks set to make significant gains if another election is called.

The League’s Eurosceptic, anti-mass migration stance has struck accord with the Italian electorate and even the EU Commission has now backed down from threats of sanctioning Italy over discrimination after the government launched a crackdown on the Roma community, evicting over 300 squatting camps around the capital of Rome, the EU Observer reports.

Earlier this month Deputy Prime Minister Salvini also announced that the Italian navy would stop NGO funded ships unloading migrants at the countries ports and also intends to block foreign naval vessels, such as the Irish Navy, from doing the same, Duetsche Welle reported.

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