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Inside Europe: Italy and France face-off over migrants

Megan Williams
January 25, 2019

Some 200 people have drowned in the Mediterranean Sea since the beginning of the year, trying to reach Europe from North Africa. The Italian government has closed its ports to rescued migrants. As Megan Williams reports from Rome, the country's populist government has found a new culprit for the migrant crisis and Africa's problems: France and the currency it created in Africa in 1945.

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