Italian authorities say 40 migrants with no permission to remain on Italian soil are being transferred from Italy to Albania ...

Italy dispatched 40 failed asylum seekers to Albania on Friday to be held until repatriation to their home countries in ...

It was the first time an EU country sent rejected migrants to a nation outside the EU that is neither their own nor a country ...

This marks the fourth such deportation to Albania amid the Giorgia Meloni administration's crackdown on illegal immigration ...

Italy’s far-right-led government of Premier Giorgia Meloni approved a decree last month that expanded the use of the Albanian ...

A legal adviser to the European Union's high court backed Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's controversial scheme to ...

Italy’s far-right-led government of Premier Giorgia Meloni approved a decree last month that expanded the use of the Albanian fast-track asylum processing centers to include the detention of ...

But the Albania deportation scheme had been put on hold after Italian courts repeatedly annulled the transfer of sea migrants, forcing the government to bring them to Italy to assess their legal ...