Albania migrant centres operational from Aug 1 - Meloni

(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 5 - Two new migrant processing centres run by Italy in Albania will be operational from August 1, Premier Giorgia Meloni said on a visit to a third hotspot in the port city of Shengjin with Prime Minister Edi Rama Wednesday.
    The centres were supposed to have opened on May 20 but there have been construction and procedural delays.
    The scheme has been criticised by rights groups as externalising migration processing and creating a new Guantanamo but several other European countries have said they would like to emulate it. (ANSA).