party led by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán won a two-thirds supermajority in parliament, in a victory due almost entirely to a campaign against immigration and EU refugee quotas. June 2018 1 June: The populist Government of Change, a coalition between the Five Star Movement and Lega Nord, was formed following the Italian general election in March. Lega leader and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini pledged to stop illegal immigration, deport 600,000 migrants and put an end to Italy and Sicily being "Europe's refugee camp". 10 June: Italy and Malta denied entry to the NGO ship Aquarius with 629 people on board (among them seven pregnant women, eleven small children and 123 unaccompanied minors). The migrants had embarked from Libya on inflatable boats, and were picked up off the Libyan coast. Salvini stated he wanted an end to illegal immigration and human trafficking. July 2018 8 July: Italy's Interior Minister Matteo Salvini declared that his country would also reject foreign navy as well as Frontex ships that have boarded refugees at sea. He urged Europe's rescue missions to take refugees away from Italy's ports. January 2019 5 January: The European Union records the lowest number of migrant arrivals in five years. About 150,000 have taken the Mediterranean route; 57,000 of them were brought to Spanish ports, making the Western Mediterranean the most active migratory route in 2018. See also Illegal immigration List of ships for the rescue of refugees in the Mediterranean Sea References Contemporary history timelines Timelines of current events