The UK prime minister met with his Italian counterpart Giorgia Meloni in Rome Monday to discuss how the two countries could bolster cooperation in tackling illegal migration.
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00:00UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has praised Italian Premier Giorgia Maloney for the remarkable
00:07progress Italy has made in reducing migrant numbers.
00:12Starmer met with his Italian counterpart for talks in Rome, as the UK continues to grapple
00:17with increasing numbers of migrant channel crossings.
00:22More than 22,000 migrants have arrived on British shores from France this year.
00:49In stark contrast, the number of migrants arriving in Italy by boat in the first half
00:54of this year was down 60 percent from 2023, according to the country's interior ministry.
01:02Maloney said Starmer had expressed interest in new solutions such as Italy's Albania deal.
01:08We are also in agreement that we should not be afraid to explore new solutions.
01:14We have talked about the protocol between Italy and Albania, which is a solution for which
01:19the UK government shows a lot of attention and clearly we have offered all the elements
01:29to better understand this mechanism, which has been one of the innovations brought by
01:33the Italian government in the policy of government of migratory flows.
01:38Starmer's visit to Rome comes after at least eight migrants died off the French coast while
01:43trying to cross the English Channel.