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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Rajeev Syal

‘Come to Germany and learn’: Albanian PM criticises UK’s immigration stance

Albanian prime minister Edi Rama, German chancellor Olaf Scholz and European commission president Ursula von der Leyen address a press conference at the end of the Berlin Process 2022 Western Balkans Summit.
Albanian prime minister Edi Rama, German chancellor Olaf Scholz and European commission president Ursula von der Leyen address a press conference at the end of the Berlin Process 2022 Western Balkans Summit. Photograph: Jens Schlueter/AFP/Getty Images

The UK government should look to Germany to learn how to cope with a wave of immigrants, the Albanian prime minister has said, as he criticised its depiction of his countrymen as criminals.

“I have never heard any German politician or government minister talk about an ‘invasion’ and I never heard any minister or interior minister here talking about being criminals,” Edi Rama said at a press conference marking the end of a summit in Berlin. “Instead of fuelling the crazy narrative of invaders and gangsters to cover up for totally failed policies on borders and crime, the British representatives need to come to Germany and learn quickly.

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