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# Albania shuts door on Starmer’s asylum hub ambitions
- URL: https://www.europeans.today/2025/05/16/albania-shuts-door-on-starmers-asylum-hub-ambitions/
- Published: 2025-05-16T00:05:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-05-29T23:07:42.000Z
- Description: Keir Starmer’s visit to Albania backfires as the country’s Prime Minister, Edi Rama, rejects the UK asylum hub plan, derailing his flagship migration policy and sparking political embarrassment amid record Channel crossings and mounting criticism. | Today’s Political Cartoon.
- Author: TODAY's Cartoons
- Tags: Today's Cartoon, TODAY+

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### **GOING FURTHER**

- ###### [Starmer trip labelled an ‘embarrassment’ as Albania rules out asylum seeker deal](https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/may/15/starmer-trip-labelled-an-embarassment-as-albania-rules-out-asylum-seeker-deal?ref=europeans.today) | THE GUARDIAN
- ###### [UK in talks to send failed asylum seekers abroad](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8re55z8kv7o?ref=europeans.today) | BBC NEWS.
- ###### [An embarrassment for Starmer on migrant return hubs?](https://news.sky.com/story/an-embarrassment-for-starmer-on-migrant-return-hubs-13368424?ref=europeans.today) | SKY NEWS

  
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