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Italy’s far-right prime minister has spoken out about her similarities with Sir Keir Starmer, saying the pair are “in tune” on “the combat towards mass unlawful immigration”.
Giorgia Meloni, recognized for her hardline views on immigration, sparked concern throughout Europe as her coalition authorities got here to energy in October 2022.
However after assembly the UK prime minister in September, it appears the pair have struck up good relations.
In an interview with Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, she mentioned relations between herself and Starmer had been “very effectively”, including: “We’re in tune on many points. I’m considering, for instance, of the administration of migratory flows and the combat towards mass unlawful immigration, as a result of it’s a phenomenon that impacts your entire European continent, even outdoors the EU borders.”
Final yr, Meloni backed a £556m deal to move 3,000 individuals intercepted in Italian seas every month to Albania – however the plan has not been profitable up to now attributable to authorized issues.
Starmer confronted criticism in September after he mentioned that the UK would ship Italy £4m to assist the Italian PM’s immigration crackdown.
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Meloni added: “We agree with Starmer that we have to intensify the combat towards traffickers, work on higher cooperation between our police forces, strengthen the dedication to assisted voluntary repatriations and never be afraid to discover progressive options, such because the one which Italy has began with the protocol with Albania to course of asylum requests in non-EU territory, however underneath Italian and European jurisdiction.”
In the identical interview, Meloni detailed her friendship with proprietor of social media website X and fellow right-winger Elon Musk.
“We’re positively two individuals who have an amazing relationship. Elon Musk is a superb man and it’s all the time very fascinating to speak to him,” she mentioned.
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“Musk is a superb character of our time, a unprecedented innovator who all the time appears to the longer term. I discover it pure to have the ability to discuss to him. After all, there are issues on which our viewpoint is extra comparable, others that we see extra distant, however this doesn’t forestall comparability.
“And, permit me, it makes you smile fairly a bit when till yesterday those that exalted Musk as a genius and at the moment as a substitute paint him as a monster, solely as a result of he selected the aspect thought of “flawed” of the barricade. I’ve by no means thought this manner.”
It comes as Musk launched an assault on Starmer and the Labour authorities after Labour rejected a name for a nationwide inquiry into little one grooming.
The tech billionaire triggered an explosive row on Thursday over Sir Keir Starmer’s dealing with of historic little one abuse in Oldham after he recommended the prime minister had didn’t carry “rape gangs” to justice when he was director of public prosecutions.
