Meloni on Albania migrant deal

Meloni on Albania migrant deal

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Premier Giorgia Meloni pledged on Sunday that her government's controversial agreement with Tirana to process migrants in Italian-run centres in Albania will be a success despite the legal setbacks that have held up the scheme, CE Report quotes ANSA.

"The centres for migrants in Albania will work, even if I have to spend every night there from now until the end of the (term of the) Italian government," Meloni told the Atreju festival in Rome organized her right-wing Brothers of Italy (FdI) party.

"Because I want to fight the mafia and I ask the whole Italian State and decent people to help me fight the mafia.

"I am not the enemy, I am a decent person," added the premier, raising her voice to applause from the crowd.

Italian judges nixed the detention of the first two batches of Egyptian and Bangladeshi migrants taken to the Albanian centres.

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