A deal reached this month by Italy with Albania to build centres for migrants coming ashore by sea could serve as a blueprint for other EU countries, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Friday.
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Albania will hold a maximum of 3,000 migrants at any one time under a deal announced this week allowing Italy to build two migrant reception and detention camps there, official documents showed on Wednesday. The scheme is the first example of a non-EU country accepting migrants on behalf of an EU nation.
Italy’s government is hailing as “historic” a plan to send seaborne migrants to Albania, but experts and opposition politicians warn that it could face significant bureaucratic and human rights obstacles. The move is part of an EU-wide drive to clamp down on irregular immigration.
The narrow, arched room below the Medici Chapels Museum in Florence has some suspiciously virtuosic doodles on the walls.
On Italy’s southernmost island, Lampedusa, thousands of migrants crowded a reception center built for 600 as small boats hailing from Tunisia kept arriving.
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni will pay a working visit to Athens on Thursday. Meloni will meet with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and, according to government spokesman Pavlos Marinakis, bilateral and regional issues and European agenda issues will be discussed.
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is set to meet with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis in Athens on Thursday.
Italian President Sergio Mattarella Mattarella said he keeps in his office a drawing of a teenage victim of a migrant shipwreck who had set off with a school report sewn into his jacket, indicating that “he wanted to come to Europe to study.”
An ancient Greek altar for family worship dating back more than 2,000 years has been found in the archaeological site of Segesta on the Italian island of Sicily, local authorities said on Friday.
The shipwreck that killed at least 79 people in international waters off Greece happened in search and rescue waters under Greek responsibility, Italy’s interior minister said on Thursday.
It was only after removing a layer of wax and other material from a 19th-century restoration that Vatican experts understood the Hercules Mastai Righetti’s true splendor as one of the most significant gilded statues of its time.
A century ago, at the end of October 1922, Benito Mussolini’s Blackshirts marched toward Rome, which they took over.
Five people were arrested on the island of Karpathos Tuesday and charged with trying to smuggle nearly a hundred migrants into Europe on an unsafe vessel last week, using what appears to be a new direct sea route from crisis-afflicted Lebanon to Italy.
Just like a decade ago, investors are questioning whether some euro zone countries can continue to roll over their public debts, which have ballooned during the pandemic and are becoming more expensive to refinance as the ECB prepares to raise interest rates.
Italy’s decline in employment during the Covid-19 crisis of 2020 and 2021 was around 3%, roughly in line with Spain and Ireland. The only EU countries to register a larger drop were Greece (-5.1%) and Bulgaria (-3.6%).
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