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,

Italian judges on Monday rejected the detention of a second group of migrants sent to Italian-run centres in Albania, dealing a new blow to Rome's flagship migration policy.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has been dealt a blow over her migrant plan scheme after judges halted the incarceration of seven migrants. Last November, Meloni’s government signed a protocol with Albania to open two asylum centres in the nearby Balkan country.

A Rome court on Monday decided to once again disrupt Meloni's recently established Italy-Albania migration outsourcing scheme by suspending the transfer of seven asylum seekers, adding to the 12 transfers it suspended in mid-October.

An Italian court has ruled that seven migrants held in an offshore asylum-processing centre in Albania must be brought to Italy, in another setback for Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's new migration scheme. The men, who originally come from Egypt and ...

An Italian navy ship has arrived at the Albanian port of Shengjin with eight migrants who will be processed there after they were intercepted in international waters.

One of the eight migrants brought for processing in an Albanian center after being intercepted in international waters has returned to Italy after being deemed “vulnerable,” a delegation of Italian activists and lawmakers visiting the center said on Saturday.

The tension between government and judiciary. In recent days, the migration issue in Italy has become increasingly heated, with the government firmly opposing the decisions of the