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Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Wednesday said her government’s scheme to process thousands of asylum seekers in Albania will be put into action from August. Meloni and her Albanian counterpart Edi Rama announced the completion of a reception centre in the port city of Shëngjin, with a second facility in the nearby village of Gjadër still to be completed. The facilities, for migrants picked up by the Italian navy in the Mediterranean Sea, are set to accommodate around 36,000 asylum seekers per year. “The greatest benefit of this project is that it can be an extraordinary tool to deter…

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