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Transfers from Switzerland to Italy will resume from the end of August <\/p>\n
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After a break of almost four years, Switzerland is resuming the transfer of asylum-seekers arriving from Italy.\n<\/p>\n
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August 18, 2026 – 16:55\n<\/p>\n
\u201cThe first flights have been booked,\u201d Magdalena Baker, spokesperson for the State Secretariat for Migration (SEM), confirmed to Swiss public broadcaster SRF, explaining that the process will resume from the end of August and that, at present, these are only isolated cases.<\/p>\n
The SEM has agreed with the Italian authorities that the resumption should take place gradually. \u201cIt is in Switzerland\u2019s interest that the resumption be managed in a way that is sustainable for both parties, so that the system functions effectively in the long term and is not overburdened.\u201d<\/p>\n
In December 2022, shortly after Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni took office, Italy suspended all readmissions of asylum-seekers, thereby breaching the Dublin Regulation on asylum.<\/p>\n
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Italy suspends transfer accord of asylum seekers in Switzerland <\/p>\n
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The Swiss authorities say Italy is blocking the return of asylum seekers despite an international accord on migration. <\/p>\n
<\/p>\n Read more: Italy suspends transfer accord of asylum seekers in Switzerland The fact that Italy is now, in principle, once again willing to accept readmissions is linked to the new European Pact on Migration and Asylum. This pact, which came into force on June 12, provides financial support and other relief for Italy and other countries of first arrival for asylum-seekers. However, this is only on condition that the countries fulfil their obligations.<\/p>\n Rome, however, intends to readmit only those asylum-seekers who arrived after June 12, i.e. after the pact came into force. As far as Switzerland is concerned, the first returns will involve asylum-seekers who arrived after June 12.<\/p>\n \u201cThe new procedures must first be tested on the basis of current cases,\u201d the SEM spokesperson explained to SRF, emphasising that no agreement had been concluded with Italy that would exclude asylum-seekers who arrived before June 12 from being returned.<\/p>\n +\u00a0How we produce English news<\/a> Articles in this story <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Transfers from Switzerland to Italy will resume from the end of August Keystone-SDA After a break of almost…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2756,22635,5,869,8292],"class_list":["post-40897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-italy","tag-article","tag-beat-various","tag-italy","tag-latest-news","tag-production-type-deepl-autotranslation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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