'EU wants additional 8,000 places for migrants by 2026'

(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 6 - Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi said on Wednesday that the EU asylum procedure regulation has set a target of over 8,000 places Italy needs to create by 2026 in order to host migrants as a border country, referring to new Italian-run centres in Albania.
    "We were told: Why Albania? I remind you that the European regulation" on new border procedures as part of the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum "has given Italy, as a border country, the objective of creating by 2026 over 8,000 places available for the detention/hosting of migrants", Piantedosi told the parliamentary Schengen committee.
    "We must therefore organize to create them", said the interior minister. (ANSA).