The Albanian centres have remained substantially inactive since their opening in October, due to legal hurdles and amid wide ...

Italy will transform a detention centre it built in Albania for sea migrants into a repatriation hub for failed asylum ...

Italy's hard-right government said Friday it would use its Albanian migrant centres for people awaiting deportation, the ...

Italy's offshore asylum protocol, which sends asylum seekers to detention centres in Albania, face legal challenges and ...

[AFP] Italy on Monday began transferring migrants intercepted in the Mediterranean to centres in Albania in a European first that has sparked criticism from human rights groups. Sixteen migrants ...

ROME - To prevent Albania’s facilities from going unused, Italy plans to repurpose them as return hubs - an option that could become viable once Commissioner Magnus Brunner’s plan takes effect.

In 2023, Italy signed a deal with Albania to house up to 3,000 male migrants while their asylum claims are processed. Two purpose-built detention centers will cost Rome 670 million euros ($730 ...

Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's plan to outsource migrant processing to non-EU Albania has hit a second roadblock, with the seven men in question expected to be transferred shortly to Italy.

Italy wants to house migrants in a closed camp in Albania while their asylum applications are being processed. The plan has hit legal roadblocks, and Rome is trying to salvage the project.

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 ...

but with this operation we hope to give a new impulse to the cultural and professional contamination between Italy and the Balkans, which already has a long history behind it. Thinking more broadly, I ...