On Friday 18 October, an Italian court invalidated the detention in Albanian centres of the first 12 asylum seekers that Rome transferred there this week, AFP, reported, while the President of the Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, indicated on 16 October that the Commission would study the results of this experiment to provide input for possible new legislation on the return of irregular migrants.
The court referred in particular to a recent ruling by the European Court of Justice on...