Italy’s PM Meloni Unveils Her ‘Africa Plan’ To Create an Energy Hub and Curb Illegal Immigration
Days after closing a deal with Albania to hold part of the migrant flood there while awaiting asylum processing, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is trying to limit the number of arrivals in the first place, by a new partnership with Africa.
She unveiled a long-awaited plan to ‘boost economic ties, create an energy hub for Europe and curb immigration’.
More than two dozen African leaders attended the one-day summit, where Meloni outlined a series of initiatives with an initial pledge of 5.5 billion euros ($5.95 billion).
Meloni called the summit a success, that ‘produced many areas of potential cooperation, particularly with regards to energy’.
Reuters reported:
“‘We are only at the beginning,
