A year ago this month, the Italian government signed a controversial deal with Albania. It would see asylum seekers rescued off the coast of Italy be taken to a detention facility in Albania — not an EU country — to have their asylum claims processed. But as The World’s Europe Correspondent Orla Barry reports, not a single asylum seeker is staying at the detention facility.
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