The first ship, which had 16 migrants on board, was sent to Albania on October 16. All of them were sent back to Italy after a court in Rome ruled that the transfer was unlawful and that repatriating ...

The Italian government has told judges at the European Union’s highest court that its transfers of migrants to asylum ...

The European Commission is backing Italy in its innovative but controversial protocol with Albania to process migrants in the non-EU country and thus deter departures, Internal Affairs and Migration ...

An Eritrean who was among a group of sea migrants held on an Italian coast guard vessel for 10 days in 2018 is entitled to ...

The map below shows the location of Albania and Rome. The blue line represents the straight line joining these two place. The distance shown is the straight line or the air travel distance between ...

ROME - Over a hundred workers from the organisation managing the Italy-Albania migration centres have been dismissed “until further notice,” Italian newspaper reports. The termination letter ...

In Albania's capital, Baba Mondi envisions a Vatican-like state for his Bektashi faith on a tiny scrap of land that would ...

ROME - The European Commission backed Italy’s stance in the Italy-Albania Migration Deal case, arguing that EU law allows states to designate countries as “safe” even if only for specific, ...

The two appealed the decision to a court in Rome, which asked the Luxembourg-based court to clarify EU law. In 2023, Italy signed a deal with Albania to house up to 3,000 male migrants while their ...

Migrants board an Italian Coast Guard vessel as part of a transfer operation from the asylum processing centers in Albania back to Italy following a court decision in Rome, at the port of Shengjin ...