The Italian Bishops Conference (CEI)
on Thursday slammed the Italy-Albania accord for Rome to set up
Italian-run migrant centres across the Adriatic saying that
Italy was pretending to stop a phenomenon that was instead
growing year by year.
"Today the Senate approved the Albania-Italy agreement for the
detention of migrants that the Coast Guard will save at sea,
after 673 million euro in ten years up in smoke due to the
inability to build a widespread reception system in our country,
which ranks 16th in Europe in the reception of asylum seekers
compared to the number of inhabitants", said Msgr. Gian Carlo
Perego, president of the Italian Episcopal Conference's
Commission for Migration and Migrantes.
He said the 673 million euro had been really 'thrown into the
sea due to the inability to govern a phenomenon, that of forced
migration, which we pretend to block, but which is growing year
by year".
photo: CEI chief Cardinal Matteo Zuppi with Premier Giorgia
Meloni and Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani
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