Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s government in Rome has called on the European Union to establish migrant return hubs in Africa in the wake of last week’s Ceuta border crisis.
At a meeting of EU interior ministers on Tuesday, the Meloni government in Rome argued that the “Albanian model” should be adopted more broadly for the entire bloc and that asylum processing centres should be established and funded by Brussels in Africa to stem the tide of illegal migration across the Mediterranean.
Meloni’s government has been successful in driving down the number of illegal migrants arriving by boat, with 16,732 aliens reaching Italian shores so far this year. This is...
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