The European Court of Justice ruled on Friday in favour of Italian judges who have blocked Italy from sending migrants to detention centres in Albania, in a blow to the government of Giorgia Meloni.
Meloni’s flagship plan to outsource migrant processing to a non-EU country and speed up repatriations of failed asylum seekers has been followed closely by other countries in the European Union. Italian magistrates have cited the European court’s decision that EU states cannot designate an entire country as ’safe’—thereby facilitating the repatriation of migrants—when certain regions of that country are not.
In its ruling published on Friday, the court did not contest Italy’s right to designate so-called “safe countries of origin,” as it has done. “However, a Member State may not include a country in the list of safe countries of origin if that country does not offer adequate protection to its entire population,” it ruled.
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