More details are coming on the cost of financing migrant centers to be built in Albania: over 142 million euros in 2024, almost 645 million euros in five years, according to the agreement signed between Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and his counterpart Edi Rama. It will be added to the approximately 90 million expenditure detailed in the draft approved by the Council of Ministers. The frightening sum is included in the text of the bill on the approval of the protocol that President Sergio Mattarella signed with Tirana on December 19, allowing it to be submitted to the Parliament.
This is a very high figure that the Italian government decided to use to transport to Albania an absolutely negligible number of migrants rescued by Italian ships on the high seas. A figure that will never reach 36 thousand annually.
This amount exceeds the provisions of the Protocol on strengthening cooperation on migration issues signed between the Government of the Italian Republic and the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Albania in Rome on 6 November 2023. A few weeks ago, Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani promised that “less than 200 million” would ultimately be committed. We now need to address the issue of disruption in the agreement on immigrants signed by Italy with Albania. The Tirana Constitutional Court accepted two objections submitted by the opposition Democrat Sali Berisha Party and suspended the agreement’s approval procedures in Parliament.
Albanian court suspends ratification of agreement on migrants signed with Italy
Source: Today IT
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