Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has travelled to Italy for migration talks with the nation's government.
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has travelled to Italy for migration talks with the nation's government. Ms Cooper met her counterpart in Rome, Matteo Piandetosi, at the end of a week of diplomacy on border control.She was also expected to attend the Atreju festival, an annual event organised by Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni's Brothers of Italy party, speaking alongside Mr Piandetosi on tackling migration across Europe.
Separately, the UK and Germany set out a joint plan earlier in the week on how to tackle people smugglers, with Berlin pledging to make it a clear criminal offence to "facilitate the smuggling of migrants to the UK".Ministers have committed to reducing the number of crossings by "smashing the gangs" operating the cross-Channel route.
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