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Hard-line Italy and anti-migrant rhetoric

Does the European Union face an existential crisis over migration? Italy's new hard-line Interior Minister Matteo Salvini sent packing a second migrant ship in as many weeks, declaring it unwelcome in Italian ports.

John Sweeney has been to Calibria in southern Italy to see how the new populist government's anti-migrant rhetoric is playing out on the ground.

(Image: Matteo Salvini, credit: ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½)

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