Italy will transform a detention centre it built in Albania for sea migrants into a repatriation hub for failed asylum seekers, in a bid to overcome judicial hurdles that have prevented use of the ...

A legal adviser to the European Union's high court backed Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's controversial scheme to send asylum-seekers picked up in the Mediterranean Sea to centers in Albania.

An Italian navy ship approaches the port , as Italian authorities transfer 40 migrants with no permission to remain in the country to Italian-run migration detention centers in Albania, in Shengjin, ...

U.S. Donald Trump accepted an invitation from Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni to visit Rome after the Italian far-right ...

Facing criticism from the opposition over the legal confusion, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's conservative coalition last ...

the government led by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has taken a hardline stance against illegal immigration. The policy of relocating undocumented migrants arriving from outside the EU to Albania ...

The Albanian centres have remained largely inactive ... has been a disappointment for the conservative government led by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. After longer than expected construction ...

Giorgia Meloni has dismissed the idea that Italy will ... Her efforts to divert irregular migrants to detention centres in Albania have been rejected by the courts, leading to tensions with ...

Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni told the summit the nation’s deal with Albania to process claims offshore had ‘gained increasing consensus’. Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer leads a ...

Before that, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s plan for the Italian-funded centres in Albania was to use them as hubs to fast-track processing and deportation procedures for adult male migrants ...

Italy’s government approved a decree that expands the use of Albanian fast-track asylum ... “I went over to Italy to visit Giorgia Meloni to have an in-depth discussion with her about some ...