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France’s Prime Minister Michel Barnier has said he doesn’t think the deal Italy has made with Albania to send asylum seekers there for processing will work in France. “I don’t think this example can be transposed (to France),” Barnier told reporters in Menton, a French town near the border with Italy. Barnier also said that the Albania deal wouldn’t work in France because of legal reasons. Last week, Italy formally opened two return hub centres in Albania under Rome’s jurisdiction, where it plans to process thousands of asylum-seekers outside its borders. Only adult men would be housed in the …

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