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Migrant agreement, report: The center in Gjadra costs Italy 114 thousand euros per day

2025-07-24 23:46:00Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Migrant agreement, report: The center in Gjadra costs Italy 114 thousand euros
Edi Rama and Giorgia Meloni

The agreement with Albania to build two detention centers for migrants is proving costly for Italy. According to a report published by ActionAid and the University of Bari, this model is “extremely costly, useless and inhumane.”

According to the report, the centers in Shëngjin and Gjadra, opened in October 2024, have consumed millions of euros of Italian public funds.

The construction of the Gjadra center alone cost 74.2 million euros, at a cost of 153 thousand euros per bed. In contrast, a similar center in Italy (Porto Empedocle) cost only 21 thousand euros per bed.

In just 5 days of real operation during 2024, Albanian centers have cost the Italian state 570 thousand euros, or in other words, 114 thousand euros per day to hold only 20 people, who were later released.

The report emphasizes that an additional 528 thousand euros were spent on accommodation and food for police personnel serving in these structures, not counting the costs of sea transport from Italy to Albania.

In April 2025, after the failure of the first three operations to transfer asylum seekers, the Italian government changed the function of the center in Gjadra and used it for migrants awaiting deportation. But this strategy also seems absurd to ActionAid, as there are still 263 empty places in the existing Italian structures.

Fabrizio Coresi from ActionAid said that "the exploitation of Gjadri is not only pointless, but also irrational."

The Italian government is using the agreement with Albania as a model for the future. Ursula von der Leyen's European Commission and several EU member states are seeing this experiment as a possible example for detention centers outside the EU, according to the "safe third country" model.

The Italian prime minister's idea has even gained traction among Europeans. On July 22, during a meeting in Copenhagen of EU interior ministers, the plan received initial approval from France and Germany. If support for this approach expands, the proposal could become official EU policy by the end of the year.


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