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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Lorenzo Tondo

Meloni’s government passes new law to save Albania migration transfer policy

A group of people disembark from a patrol boat
The Italian coastguard patrol boat arrives at the port of Bari in Italy carrying the 12 asylum seekers from the repatriation centre in Gjadër after the Rome court’s ruling. Photograph: Donato Fasano/EPA

Italy’s far-right government has passed a new law to overcome a court ruling that risks blocking the country’s multimillion-dollar deal with Albania aimed at curbing migrant arrivals.

On Friday, a court in Rome ruled to transfer back to Italy the last 12 asylum seekers being held in the new Italian migration hub in Albania. The ruling has cast doubt on the feasibility and legality of plans by the EU to explore ways to establish migrant processing and detention centres outside the bloc as part of a new hardline approach to migration.

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