{"id":216700,"date":"2025-06-26T19:50:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T19:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/216700\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T19:50:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T19:50:17","slug":"albanian-pm-slams-uk-push-to-dump-asylum-seekers-in-third-countries-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/216700\/","title":{"rendered":"Albanian PM slams UK push to \u2018dump\u2019 asylum-seekers in third countries \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>However, Rama confirmed at the time Albania would not be part of the scheme as \u201cwe are loyal to our marriage with Italy.\u201d Tiran\u00eb has a similar scheme with Rome which has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/giorgia-meloni-italy-albania-migrant-scheme-hits-another-bump-bangladesh-egypt-court-judge-salvatore-casciaro\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">repeatedly held up by legal action<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Rama told The Guardian: \u201cThe fact that today it\u2019s not just imaginable, it\u2019s happening, is not because of Keir Starmer or [Rishi] Sunak doing something outrageous; it\u2019s because of the country being in a very dark place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Albanian PM said Starmer\u2019s proposals were part of the \u201ceighty percent of the things that are said, or are written, or are accepted as a normal part of the discourse in today\u2019s Britain\u201d\u00a0 and argued that before Brexit these \u201cwould have been totally unacceptable, totally ridiculous, totally shameful.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Under the U.K.\u2019s previous Conservative government, London and Tiran\u00eb signed a joint communiqu\u00e9\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/milestone-reached-in-uk-albania-agreement-on-illegal-migration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">set up a task force<\/a> to tackle illegal migration that saw more than 1,000 Albanian nationals returned from Britain. However, relations between the two nations were often strained over politicians\u2019 rhetoric about Albanian asylum-seekers \u201cinvading\u201d Britain.<\/p>\n<p>Rama said Starmer was a \u201cvery decent [and] a delightful person\u201d and made clear the British PM hadn\u2019t made a public request for Albania to join the scheme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"However, Rama confirmed at the time Albania would not be part of the scheme as \u201cwe are loyal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[10541,5108,802,748,1193,43669,393,4884,40,2199,807,6657,1144,46,712,16,15,1764,1202],"class_list":{"0":"post-216700","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-albania","10":"tag-asylum","11":"tag-brexit","12":"tag-britain","13":"tag-british-politics","14":"tag-edi-rama","15":"tag-england","16":"tag-great-britain","17":"tag-immigration","18":"tag-italy","19":"tag-keir-starmer","20":"tag-migration","21":"tag-northern-ireland","22":"tag-policy","23":"tag-scotland","24":"tag-uk","25":"tag-united-kingdom","26":"tag-wales","27":"tag-westminster-bubble"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114751407692794032","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}