(AP) Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni’s government vowed on Monday to open controversial migrant processing centers in Albania that have remained dormant after Italian courts refused to validate the transfer of the first two groups of migrants.
Government ministers “repeated the firm intention to continue to work … on so-called ‘innovative solutions’ to the migration phenomenon,” Meloni’s office said in a statement. It gave no timeline.
The statement cited a court ruling last week by Italy’s highest court that said Italian judges could not substitute for government policy on deciding which countries are safe for repatriation of migrants whose asylum requests are rejected.
The decision does allow lower courts to make such determinations on a case-by-case basis, short of setting overall policy.
