The Lower House on Wednesday ratified
a deal between Italy and Albania to set up two migrant reception
centres on Albanian territory to process the asylum claims of
migrants and refugees rescued by Italian authorities at sea.
Lawmakers approved the ratification bill with 155 votes in
favour, 115 against and two abstentions. The bill now passes to
the Senate for final approval. The agreement, signed by Premier
Giorgia Meloni and her Albanian counterpart Edi Rama in Rome in
November, provides for the reception and processing of up to
3,000 migrants and refugees per month. People with special needs
such as the elderly, children or pregnant women, migrants and
refugees who have been rescued by NGO-run ships and people who
land directly on Italian soil are to be excluded from the deal.
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