Italy-Albania migration deal: Will EU countries emulate contested plan to offshore asylum claims?

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An Italian navy ship has docked in Albania, carrying the first migrants in a deal to divert asylum seekers away from the EU. The Italian government is sending migrants to detention centers across the Adriatic Sea while their asylum applications are processed. But NGOs say Rome is pushing its problem onto a poorer nation, and are concerned about how the migrants will be treated. DW’s Jack Parrock takes a look at how it will work.

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