Europe migrant crisis: Italy to build migrant centres in Albania

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1970-01-01 08:00

The centres will be able to process more than 30,000 asylum seekers a year, Italy's PM has said.

Italy will build two centres in Albania to host tens of thousands of illegal migrants, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has said.

She announced the plan at a news conference with Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama in Rome.

Ms Meloni said the centres - due to open next spring - will be able to...