When the tiny village of Gjadër in northwestern Albania got word that a migrant detention facility was to be built on a disused military airbase, plenty of locals were dismayed. Aleksander Preka ...

On Oct. 21, Italy's far-right government approved a new decree aimed at overcoming those judicial hurdles that risked derailing a controversial five-year migration deal with Albania, signed in ...

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.

He said Albania felt an expression of gratitude for the tens of thousands of Albanians who were welcomed by Italy when ...

The government was forced on Saturday to return 12 migrants who had previously been taken to Italy's new migrant-processing centres in Albania, after a court in Rome cast doubt on the scheme.

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 ...

Italy's Top Court to Take Weeks to Rule on Albanian Migrant Camps Plan By Paolo Chiriatti ROME (Reuters) - Italy's supreme court heard cases related to the government's plan to divert migrants to ...

Magi pointed out that, since the opening of the CPRs, 6,000 migrants have arrived in Italy. "If the judges hadn't applied the law, there would be only 18 migrants in Albania. Do you understand ...

ROME - Italy's supreme court heard cases related to the government's plan to divert migrants to Albania on Wednesday, but will take weeks to rule on its legitimacy, sources said, leaving Prime ...

[AFP] Twelve Bangladeshi and Egyptian men left Albania for Italy on Saturday after judges ruled against their detention in the non-EU nation under a controversial deal between Rome and Tirana.