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Amnesty Demands EU Stops ‘Outsourcing Asylum’ and Accuses Meloni of Authoritarian Tricks to Push Albania Deal

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Amnesty International is demanding the EU stop outsourcing asylum, in a report critical of Italy’s controversial deal with Albania to fast-track deportations of people deemed to come from countries considered ‘safe’. But the NGO’s appeal, along with the EU recommendations due to be published later on Thursday (20 August), is likely to fall on deaf ears as the European Commission instead presses member states to further embed their self-declared …

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The operation of these centres financed by Italy, which was the result of an agreement between Rome and Tirana in 2023, is described as particularly opaque. The human rights organisation denounces a situation "concerning", while Giorgia Meloni wants to expand the system.

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The relocation of the processing of asylum applications by migrant and asylum-seekers in the framework of the agreement concluded between Italy and Albania endangers the security, freedom and human rights of these people, Amnesty International points out in a report published only a few weeks after the events in Ceuta which highlighted the dangers of long-standing European Union (EU) migration policies on exclusion and confinement.

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amnesty.be broke the news on Thursday, August 20, 2026.
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