The Prime Minister of Italy, Giorgia Meloni, reacted to the "Report" program of RAI3 television, in which the agreement for immigrants Albania-Italy was criticized. "Albania and Rama were lynched for trying to help us with immigrants," Meloni said in Pescara during the convention in which she announced her candidacy in the European elections on June 8 and 9, according to Italian media Lapresse. During her speech, Meloni did not spare criticisms and ironies towards RAI 3. "The left proposed to expel him from the European socialists, instead of thanking him for acting in the name of European solidarity, they lynched him. Especially since you introduced him as Telemon, right, Telemelon? He compiled a report on Albania in which he portrayed it as a narco-state. Help me send our solidarity to Edi Rama, who was lynched just because he tried to help our nation", said Meloni.
Prime Minister Edi Rama has described as a "disgusting show" the report of "Report" broadcast on RAI 3, where the agreement reached between Albania and Italy for immigrants is discussed. In order to protect the image of Albania, against the documentary of the show "Report" on RAI3, Prime Minister Rama launched a clarification campaign in all Italian media. "There's no way it won't hurt me. When I see Albania attacked in that disgusting way by RAI, as if a black page in the history of the Italian press had been reopened, when the word Albanian was used as a synonym for criminals, traffickers, thieves and prostitutes and Albania itself was treated as a source of evil", said Rama in his interviews. Meanwhile, in another reaction published in X addressed to Sigfrido Ranucci, the host of the "Report" show, to whom he says that on the same one-sided Albanian television, he continued to spread the same slanders that were then imported to Italy by "Report".The duration of the agreement will be 5 years, but may be automatically extended for another 5 years if either party does not communicate at least six months before the expiration date of its intention not to renew this protocol. On November 21, 2023, the House of Representatives in the Italian Parliament approved with 189 votes in favor and 126 against the resolution of the Italian majority, despite criticism from the opposition. While the Assembly of Albania this year approved with 77 votes the draft law "On the ratification of the Albania-Italy protocol for strengthening cooperation in the field of migration". /tch