MILAN (Reuters) – Italy’s government will hold a cabinet meeting near the southern seaside town where dozens of bodies washed ashore after a migrant ship broke up on rocks last month, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Saturday.
Speaking to reporters in Abu Dhabi after meeting United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan to discuss migration flows among other topics, Meloni rejected accusations that her government had failed to act to prevent the incident.
She also dismissed calls from the opposition for Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi to resign.
“Frankly they ask for the resignation of a different minister every day,” she said.
The right-wing Meloni has been criticised for not travelling to the site of the shipwreck in the southern region of Calabria, which was visited instead by President Sergio Mattarella.
Asked if she had plans to visit the area, Meloni said the government…
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