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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Giada Zampano

Italian court refers asylum seekers’ case to ECJ in challenge to Meloni’s migrant deal with Albania

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An Italian appeals court on Friday refused to approve the speedy expulsion of 43 asylum seekers detained in Albania under a controversial migration deal to move the proceedings beyond the European Union's borders.

The migrants, whose asylum requests have already been rejected, will now be brought back to Italy after the third failed attempt by Giorgia Meloni's far-right government to process migrants in Albania.

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