The European Union wants to increase deportations and is opening the way for “return hubs” to be set up in third countries ...

EU officials say they have tried other arrangements, but less than 20% of people told to leave the bloc actually do so.

Everything has returned to normal in the village of Gjader and the port town of Shengjin in northwestern Albania. The ...

Shortly afterward, they are taken a few kilometers inland to Gjader, where Italian officials in a reception center examine their asylum applications in a fast-track procedure. Italy is the first ...

Though the center in Gjader has capacity for 3,000 migrants, it will start with 400 and increase to 880 in a few weeks. The number of people reaching Italy along the central Mediterranean ...

At Shengjin, they undergo screenings, while at Gjader, they await asylum decisions. To circumvent judicial oversight, the government plans to limit the centers to deportations only. If ...

Everything has returned to normal in the village of Gjader and the port town of Shengjin in northwestern Albania. Almost exactly a year to the day when the parliament ratified the country's ...