"Speaking at a summit in Rome alongside Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama, Meloni said her right-wing government was determined to forge ahead with its scheme of sending migrants and asylum seekers outside the EU while their claims are processed. Certainly, the protocol will work when the new [EU] migration and asylum pact comes into effect, Meloni said on Thursday, citing a legal framework slated for 2026. When the migration and asylum pact comes into effect, the centres will operate exactly as they should have from the beginning."
"In a separate deal approved by the Albanian Parliament in February 2024, Albania agreed to hold up to 3,000 migrants and asylum seekers at any one time in two Italian-run processing centres located near the port of Shengjin. Under the plan at the time, the migrants and asylum seekers would be held for periods of about a month. It was expected that up to 36,000 people a year could be sent from Italian custody to Albania over an initial period of five years."
The Italian government plans to send migrants and asylum seekers to Albanian detention centres while their claims are processed, citing a future EU migration and asylum pact slated for 2026 as legal backing. A February 2024 agreement allows Albania to hold up to 3,000 people at two Italian-run processing centres near Shengjin, with stays of about a month and initial shipboard screening. Centres would operate under Italian law with Italian staff and judges hearing cases remotely. Rights groups labelled the scheme dehumanising, illegal and unworkable. Italy recorded 36,557 migrant arrivals as of August 1, 2025.
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