Premier Giorgia Meloni is holding a
meeting with some of her ministers on Monday on getting the
government's controversial scheme to process migrants at
Italian-run centres in Albania operational after it was blocked
by legal obstacles.
Italian judges refused to validate the detention of the first
two groups of asylum seekers taken to Albania, under an
agreement between Rome and Tirana, referring their cases to the
European Court of Justice - which had earlier established that
an applicant could not go through a fast-track procedure that
could lead to their repatriation if their country of provenance
was not deemed wholly safe.
The government has tried to get around this hurdle with a
measure listing 19 safe countries for repatriation.
During Sunday's 'North-South Summit' on European security and
defence in Saariselkä, in the Finnish region of Lapland, Meloni
said a recent decision by the supreme Court of Cassation showed
that the government has the right to say which countries are
safe for repatriation.
"The Cassation has said we are right about safe countries,"
Meloni said.
The government is aiming to get the scheme, which has stirred
the interest of many other European countries, up and running
again in the new year, sources said.
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