Rama to host Afghans: We know what it's like to live under dictatorship, give them a chance to breathe again.

I am destroyed when I see people left behind and I want to give them at least the opportunity to breathe again“, Prime Minister Edi Rama told Guardian.

We know what it's like to live under a dictatorship and what it's like to be a stranger looking for shelter somewhere. It is about who we are; it is an honor and duty to do this”, he added.

Rama said he couldn't understand “that wealthier countries can turn their backs. This conflicts with the values that we all preach. Albania cannot solve the problem, but we also do not want to be part of it“, Rama stressed.

Two thousand Afghans would take refuge in our country, following the chaotic situation created in Kabul by the Taliban who managed to take over the presidential palace.

Kabul's fall has reopened immigration divisions in European countries, while government leaders are preparing for an inevitable increase in refugees.

Thousands of Afghans, including the president Ashraf Ghan, rushed to the airport in Kabul to try to escape Afghanistan after the Taliban took over the capital.

The leaders of Albania and Kosovo said Sunday they had accepted the request from America to temporarily host political refugees seeking US entry.

It comes amid concerns that NATO members are not reacting fast enough to evacuate Afghan citizens who are at risk of revenge from Taliban.

About 30,000 Afghan citizens have fled the country every day for the past 10 days, most travel to Iran or Pakistan on land roads.

“With uncertainty and instability in Afghanistan it is clear that there will be an ecstasy and Western countries must act quickly,” said Christopher Hein, a professor of justice and immigration policies at Louis University in Rome.

Not only our country but other European states will open the doors to the Afghan people.

Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi said that “Italy is committed to protecting Afghan citizens who have collaborated with our “mission and the country “is working with European partners for a solution to the crisis that protects human rights, especially those of women”, according to The Guardian.

About 100 Italian citizens and embassy staff were evacuated from Kabul on Sunday evening, arriving at Fiumicino Airport in Rome.

There were also several Afghan citizens who had collaborated with Italian forces on board.

The Taliban are looking for people from house to house. There are thousands whose lives are at stake”, an Afghan doctor told the Italian press.

Louis Di Maio, Italy's foreign minister, told Corriere della Sera the day before the priority was the evacuation of Italian citizens, but that “we cannot think of abandoning the Afghan people after 20 years”.

Luciana Lamorgese, Italy's Interior Minister, said the country was planning to evacuate Afghan translators and the medical staff that Italian forces had helped.

“We will do everything to make sure that they arrive in Italy safely”, she said.

Since the far-right League is a key partner in the wide coalition government Draghi, it remains to be seen whether Italy will succeed in admitting more Afghan citizens.

Matteo Salvin, leader of the party who blocked immigrant rescue ships during his 14-month stay as interior minister, tweeted:

“in Kabul, after the cowardly flight of Western countries, the Islamic throat flag and Taliban killers return. Terrorism, violence, fear, and illegal immigration are on the horizon. ”

France's Defence Minister Florence Parly said on Monday that the country would first evacuate its citizens and later Afghan colleagues from Kabul to a base in Dubai.

“We are planning to take the first rotation from now to the end of this Monday”, Parly said, adding that the evacuees were French citizens who remained in Kabul “but people also under our protection”.

Key German newspapers and broadcasters have asked Chancellor Angela Merkel to implement a visa emergency programme to get Afghan journalists who worked for them over the past 20 years.

The life of this independent staff is now at stake”, the DPA news agency said.

Austria said on Sunday it would continue its policy of expulsion of Afghan asylum seekers.

The country was among six EU states that last week insisted that their right to expel Afghan asylum seekers should be preserved.

Three of these countries -- Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands -- have since changed, saying they will suspend the expulsions.

France has also suspended the expulsions of Afghan asylum seekers.

Austria's Interior Minister Carl Nehammer described the ban on deportations as “an attractive factor for illegal migration, which only promotes the vague and cynical business of smugglers and organised crime”.

“Those who need protection must take it to a country that is closer to their country of origin. As interior minister, I am mainly responsible for people living in Austria. Above all, it means the protection of social peace and welfare state in the long term”, he added.

A poll by the Austrian newspaper Osterreich indicated that 90% of Austrians backed their government's harsh stance.

EU countries are afraid of a repeat of 2015 and early 2016, when more than 1 million immigrants, mainly from Syria, but also Afghanistan and Iraq, arrived in Europe, sparking political unrest within member states and throughout the bloc. The response was to create agreements with Turkey and Libya to curb the course.

But now they have to open their eyes and take responsibility. They should be organised quickly for Afghan citizens, including many women who collaborated with European countries in Afghanistan to be expelled as soon as possible”, Hein said.