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Prime ministers of Albania (Edi Rama) and Italy (Giorgia Meloni) shaking hands after signing a deal to offshore asylum (Photo: Italian government )

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Will the European Court of Justice hearing on Albania-Italy deal matter?

Italy's controversial 2023 deal with Albania to process and deport asylum seekers has largely failed to deliver, wasting several hundred million euros of taxpayers' money in an effort to curb irregular migration arrivals.

On Tuesday (25 February), on the opening day of a hearing at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in Luxembourg aimed to unpack how EU asylum...

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Nikolaj joined EUobserver in 2012 and covers home affairs. He is originally from Denmark, but spent much of his life in France and in Belgium. He was awarded the King Baudouin Foundation grant for investigative journalism in 2010.

Prime ministers of Albania (Edi Rama) and Italy (Giorgia Meloni) shaking hands after signing a deal to offshore asylum (Photo: Italian government )

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Nikolaj joined EUobserver in 2012 and covers home affairs. He is originally from Denmark, but spent much of his life in France and in Belgium. He was awarded the King Baudouin Foundation grant for investigative journalism in 2010.

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