The first camp for asylum-seekers built by an eu country outside the eu spreads across an area the size of ten football pitches near the village of Gjader in northern Albania. This week 16 Bangladeshis and Egyptians, who had been picked up in the Mediterranean, disembarked in Albania, destined for the site. It was an important moment, and not just for Italy, which has sponsored and built the Albanian centre. After decades of fruitless discussion and thwarted plans, for the first time an eu country has begun to process asylum claims in a third country.
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Publish date : 2024-10-16 11:58:00
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