Transfers from Switzerland to Italy to resume from end of August

After a break of almost four years, Switzerland is resuming the transfer of asylum-seekers arriving from Italy. "The first flights have been booked," 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. The SEM has agreed with the Italian authorities that the resumption should take place gradually. “It is in…