Premier Giorgia Meloni said she and
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer agreed on the need to
explore new solutions to the issue of migrant arrivals during
their encounter in Rome on Monday, adding that the accord her
government reached with Tirana to set up migrant centres in
Albania was among the issues discussed.
"We agree that we should not be afraid to explore new solutions
(on the management of migrants)," Meloni told reporters.
"We talked about the Italy-Albania protocol, which the British
government is paying a lot of attention to.
"We provided elements to make it possible to better understand
this mechanism".
Before the meeting, Starmer said he wanted to work with the
Italian premier on migrant issues.
"We already have a common intention to work together against
this dastardly trade of pushing people across borders", said
Starmer, as reported by the Guardian, on his visit to an
immigration coordination centre in Rome.
"Here (in Italy) there have been quite drastic reductions.
"So I want to understand how this happened.
"It seems that this is due to the upstream work done in some of
the countries where people are coming from.
"I have long believed that preventing people from travelling is
one of the best ways to tackle' the problem."
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