A Rome court on Monday asked EU judges to weigh in on the detention of sea migrants in Albania, which is part of the Italian right-wing government's crackdown on irregular immigration, a legal source ...
Under the protocol signed between Italy and Albania last year, those sent to Albania must not show signs of torture, illness or vulnerability or be part of nuclear families traveling together.
Italy’s far-right government wants to offshore the processing of asylum claims. But the first migrants sent to Albania were deemed ineligible for detention there. GJADER, Albania — Behind a ...
ROME — Italy is transferring the first group of migrants to Albania, the Interior Ministry said Monday, as part of a contentious plan to process thousands of asylum-seekers outside its borders.
However the first batch of irregular men migrants that were sent to an asylum center in Albania, had to be returned to Italy following a decision from judges who ruled against their detention in ...