Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni is visiting Albania to thank the tiny Western Balkan country for its help hosting thousands of asylum seekers rescued from international waters.
FILE - Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni delivers her speech during at an electoral rally ahead of the EU parliamentary elections that will take place in Italy on 8 and 9 June, in Rome, on June 1, 2024. Meloni is traveling to Albania to thank the country for its willingness to host thousands of asylum seekers and tour the sites of two migrant detention centers, a visit coming just days before local and European Parliament elections, where migration is a top campaign issue.
Meloni will kick off her visit to the tiny Western Balkan nation at Gjader, a former military airport, 80 kilometers north of the capital, Tirana, and where work for one of the two migrant centers has started. Meloni's visit comes a day before the June 6-9 European elections in which migration has been a key campaign issue. Meloni and her right-wing allies have long demanded European countries share more of the migration burden, and have held up the Albania agreement as an innovative solution to a problem that has vexed the EU for years.to fund projects in African countries along migrant routes in exchange for better controls, while pressing ahead with plans to run migrant centers in Albania.
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