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.
"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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