Judges’ decision on 12 men held in Italian migration hub in Albania also casts doubt on EU’s hardline plans
The last 12 asylum seekers being held in a new Italian migration hub in Albania must be transferred to Italy, a court has ruled, in a heavy blow to a controversial deal between the far-right Rome government and Tirana aimed at curbing migrant arrivals.
The decision also casts further doubt on the feasibility and legality of plans by the EU, discussed on Thursday, to explore ways of establishing migrant processing and detention centres outside the bloc as part of a new hardline approach to migration.
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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/18/blow-to-melonis-albania-deal-as-court-orders-asylum-seekers-return-to-italy
Author : Lorenzo Tondo in Palermo, Jon Henley and Ashifa Kassam
Publish date : 2024-10-18 15:55:43
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