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Italy’s cabinet passed a decree which would allow the government to amend the list of safe countries from which migrants arrive, removing legal obstacles in implementing the government’s controversial, multi-million-euro migration deal with Albania. The government was forced on Saturday to return 12 migrants who had previously been taken to Italy’s new migrant-processing centres in Albania, after a court in Rome cast doubt on the scheme. According to the court, the migrants’ countries of origin (Bangladesh and Egypt) are “unsafe”. The court said that discrimination and prosecution in even one …

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