Premier Giorgia Meloni told the people of Lampedusa on Sunday that "we are doing everything we can" to address the migrant emergency as she visited the island with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
She also stressed that she had "shown up in person" to face the emergency after a group of local people staged a protest that blocked the way of the convoy taking Meloni and von der Leyen from the island's airport to its migrant hotspot.
After some moments of tension, talks calmed the situation and the locals to cleared the road.
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