The Italian government is asserting the right to return people to these countries, and this forms the base of their justification for the controversial Albania scheme. In short, people from these ‘safe’ countries are likely to have their asylum claims rejected,

The Italian government’s plans to process illegal migrants in camps in Albania have been dealt a new blow in court. The country’s top judges, previously branded “communists” by the deputy prime minister,

Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni’s program to screen asylum seekers outside of the European Union borders in Albania has hit another snag.