A group of around 20 Italian border police will be in Albania from March 15 to help bolster the country's frontiers, ANSA sources in Brussels said on Friday. The move stems from a request from Tirana as part of a framework of stronger cooperation between Italian and Albania on tackling migration issues and the possible arrival of asylum seekers following the closure of the Balkans route to Europe.
Tirana will decide where to use the Italian police, the sources said.
German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere, meanwhile, told ANSA on Friday that Berlin and Rome were working together to push for reform of the Dublin regulation to improve the handling of asylum seekers. "Cooperation with Italy is good," de Maiziere said in an exclusive interview with ANSA.
"My Italian colleague (Angelino Alfano) and I have just turned to the Commission with a joint bilateral initiative to push for a reform of the Dublin rules".
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