The agenda and the timing of the meeting - Mitsotakis' trip goal with von der Leyen & Meloni in Egypt
Italian PM Giorgia Meloni
Tirana agreed to house up to 3,000 people rescued at sea by Italian boats, with some exceptions for vulnerable groups
It resembles a true invasion - "We are at war" says Rome - Salvini: "If arrivals continue at this rate, my country will collapse"
Meloni: Charity ships must stop acting as "ferry boats" for illegal migrants going "back & forth with human traffickers to shuttle people from one country to the other"
Italy wishes to defend its borders from the tens of thousands of migrants, mostly departing from Libya, arriving at its shores each year
It takes courage to enforce rule of law
The two are in Brussels for the EU Council meeting
She spoke at the economic conference of the Guido Carli Foundation
Italy wants the EU to cooperate on the "epochal challenge" of migration - “No one enters Italy illegally”
"The day France agreed to take in the 234 migrants, Italy accepted 600 migrants, most arriving on small boats, the latest in almost 90,000 so far this year"