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Politico (2 January 2025)

By Elena Giordano and Una Hajdari

The much-touted solution to Europe’s migration crisis houses only Italian police — who have taken to adopting stray dogs and sunbathing.

When Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni unveiled her flagship plan to intercept, detain and process asylum-seekers in Albania, it was presented as a grand answer to Europe’s migration crisis.

But one year and €67.5 million later, the scheme is stuck in judicial limbo with no possibility for processing asylum-seekers, empty buildings that are already falling apart, and Italian personnel returning home.

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