Premier Giorgia Meloni's rightwing Brothers of Italy (FdI) party on Saturday hailed German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's view, expressed earlier in the day at the European Socialists Congress in Malaga, that a deal whereby Italian migrant centres in Albania will process up to 36,000 asylum seekers a year was a development to be watched carefully in a perspective of European solidarity, as Tirana nears European Union accession, and voiced the hope that this Turkey-style deal might be extended to other non-EU countries.
"German Chancellor Scholz relaunched the agreement signed between Meloni and (Albania's Socialist Prime Minister Edi) Rama, recalling the similar one with Turkey, hoping that its content could be further extended to other non-European countries," said FdI House Whip Tommaso Foti, quizzed by ANSA on Scholz's statements.
"A confirmation, if ever we needed it, of the far-sightedness and concreteness of the measures activated by the Meloni government to combat illegal immigration.," said Fori, adding that centre-left opposition Democratic Party (PD) leader Elly Schlein, who has slammed the pact and called for Rama's ejection from the European Socialists caucus, "never gets one right".
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