<span style="color: #222222;">The UN's Refugee Agency today called on European Union member states to urgently agree to take in some of the 150 people stranded on an Italian coastguard ship, after a fresh immigration row erupted between the bloc and Italy's populist government.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Dozens of people have been blocked at the Sicilian port of Catania on the Diciotti vessel since Monday night because the Italian government is refusing to allow them to disembark without commitments from the EU to take some of them in.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Italy said yesterday, it would pull its funding for the EU as a compensatory measure if the bloc refused to come forward and help with relocating the migrants.</span><br />