Government looking at other countries to process asylum seekers in, home secretary says

Keir Starmer considering Rwanda-style deportation scheme for asylum seekers

The Government is working “very closely” with Italian ministers to consider ways to process migrants with asylum claims in a third country.

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Government looking at other countries to process asylum seekers in, home secretary says

Yvette Cooper said she has been talking to Italy about its agreement to process asylum seekers in Albania, and is looking at other countries as well.

Government working ‘very closely’ with Italy over processing migrants

Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni told the summit the nation’s deal with Albania to process claims offshore had ‘gained increasing consensus’. The Government is working “very closely” with Italian ministers to consider ways to process migrants with asylum claims in a third country. Sir Keir Starmer said he will “look at anything that works” as the Government hosted a summit joined by representatives from 40 countries to tackle people smuggli…

Gregori: EUAA will play an important role in the implementation of the migration pact

Brdo pri Kranju – The EU Agency for Asylum (EUAA) will play an important role in the implementation of the migration and asylum pact, said the agency’s Executive Director Nina Gregori in a Friday conversation for STA. The planned shortening of asylum procedures brought by the pact, according to her, will not jeopardize the rights of applicants. The EU member states adopted the European migration and asylum pact in May 2024, which focuses on the …

We also agree with Keir Starmer that we must not be afraid to imagine and build innovative solutions like the one that Italy launched with Albania. A model that was initially criticized but then gained more and more consensus. This was said by the President of the Council, Giorgia Meloni, in a video message sent on the occasion of the “Border Security Summit” in London. “So much so that today – Meloni underlined – the European Union is proposing…