In November 2023, Italy and Albania signed an agreement allowing Italy to transfer asylum seekers to Albania, to process their
claims under accelerated procedures in ad-hoc built reception centres (“offshore processing”). To this day, despite political
will, policy debate, and several attempts, no EU country has ‘successfully’ replicated Australia’s offshore processing model of
sending asylum seekers to Nauru and Papua New Guinea, where they faced documented human rights violations. This has not prevented
the Italy-Albania offshoring deal to be presented as an innovative measure and a silver bullet, to be possibly replicated by
other EU states or even as an EU-wide approach to asylum and migration. The Italy-Albania deal can be considered a test case for EU
member states seeking to externalise migration control further through bilateral partnerships. 
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