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EP KOs debate bid on Albania-Italy deal

EPP team up with 'sovereignists' to defeat leftwing request

Redazione Ansa

(ANSA) - ROME, OCT 21 - The European Parliament on Monday voted down a request to debate the consequences of Friday's Rome court ruling nixing the transfer of the first dozen migrants to a new processing centre in Albania because the European Court of Justice said their countries of provenance, Egypt and Bangladesh, were not wholly safe.
    The Strasbourg Parliament rejected with 164 votes in favour, 319 against and 1 abstention the request, presented by the Greens group and supported by Liberals, Socialists and Left EU, to add to the Plenary calendar a debate on the "consequences of the Rome court ruling on the agreement between Italy and Albania".
    The centre-right European People's Party, the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) of Premier Giorgia Meloni, the Patriots for Europe of Deputy Premier Matteo Salvini and the ESN, another 'sovereignist' group, voted against the request.
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