Giorgia Meloni's right-wing government has built two facilities in the Balkan country to hold migrants while processing their ...

As the first people are being transferred to Italy’s new detention centres in Albania, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) warns that this marks a “dark day for the EU’s asylum and migration ...

The European Commission is backing Italy in its innovative but controversial protocol with Albania to process migrants in the ...

A significant pan-European law enforcement operation has led to the arrest of 27 individuals involved in drug trafficking.

Twenty-seven people have been arrested in a pan-European raid against two drug trafficking groups, one of which used migrants as couriers, Italy's Carabinieri police said on Wednesday.

Meloni’s government ‘doing everything it can to block illegal migrants’, as Left-wing accused of wanting to welcome anybody ...

One additional case will be heard separately. This was the first group of migrants to be processed, after courts in Italy refused to approve the transfer to Albania of two groups brought there last ...

Francesco Ferri, migration expert at ActionAid and member of the Tavolo Asilo e Immigrazione (TAI) delegation, which monitors ...

An Italian navy ship approaches the port, as Italy sends 49 more migrants to Albania for processing following earlier court rejections, in Shengjin, northwestern Albania, Tuesday, Jan. 28 ...

Meloni, who took power in 2022 at the head of a coalition that includes Berlusconi's Forza Italia party, has revisited the ...

At 7:30 a.m. on Tuesday, the Italian navy vessel Cassiopeia arrived in the Albanian port of Shengjin. On board were 49 migrants who had hoped to start a new, better life in Europe but had been ...