Source: International Business Times
The plan is costing Italy an estimated 160 million euros a year, but the two centres have largely stood empty AFP Italy's hard-right government said Friday it would use its Albanian migrant centres for people awaiting deportation, the latest attempt to salvage a costly scheme frozen for months by legal challenges. The two Italian-run facilities, located near the coast in northern Albania, were opened last October as processing centres for potential asylum seekers intercepted at sea, an experimental project being closely watched by European Union partners. But Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's ministers agreed Friday the centres will now primarily serve as repatriation facilities to hold migrants due to be sent back to their home countries.
