The initiative was announced after Italian Premier, Giorgia Meloni, met in Rome with Albanian counterpart, Edi Rama.
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00:00 Roman Tirana have agreed to set up temporary centers in Albania to house asylum seekers
00:06 in a bid to manage migration flows.
00:10 The prospective centers will accommodate up to 3,000 people.
00:14 Those allocated to Albania will be rescued at sea by Italian boats, however the plan
00:19 excludes pregnant women, children and vulnerable individuals.
00:24 Italy's far-right Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni says the initiative will help relieve chronic
00:28 overcrowding at initial asylum processing centers in Italy, where over the last years
00:33 hundreds of thousands of migrants have set foot after making risky sea voyages across
00:38 the Mediterranean.
00:41 The project was announced after Meloni met Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama in Rome.
00:47 "These structures will initially accommodate up to 3,000 people who will remain in these
00:55 centers, obviously the time necessary to quickly exploit the procedures for the processing
01:00 of asylum applications and eventually for the purposes of the repatriation."
01:07 Critics of the plan have accused Meloni of creating an Italian Guantanamo outside of
01:11 the EU without the possibility of monitoring the detention status of the people locked
01:15 up.
01:18 This comes as the UK government is challenged in the courts over its plan to send asylum
01:22 seekers to hotel-like accommodation in Rwanda.
01:26 Under the British plan, people regarded as illegal immigrants or asylum seekers will
01:30 be relocated to the African country for processing.
01:34 Those who are successful in claiming asylum will have to remain in Rwanda.
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