Reuters
Italy’s Meloni calls plan to send migrants to Albania courageous, unprecedented
Italy is setting an example for the rest of Europe by sending migrants to third countries to process their asylum requests, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Tuesday, dismissing concerns their human rights were being violated. A first group of 16 migrants is headed to Albania aboard an Italian navy ship, as Meloni’s controversial plan to use a centre outside of the European Union’s borders to consider their eligibility to enter Italy comes into force after several months delay. “It is a new, courageous, unprecedented path, but one that perfectly reflects the European spirit and has all the makings of a path to be taken with other non-EU nations as well,” Meloni told the upper house Senate.