(Politico) Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni reacted with fury on Friday as the EU’s top court raised the threshold for member countries to reject asylum-seekers.
The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) said EU nations may only create national lists of safe countries outside the bloc if they fully justify their assessments with public sources.
According to the court, a country can only be considered “safe” for repatriation if “the entire population” is protected across all regions.
Meloni called the court’s decision “surprising” and a power grab by EU judges. “Once again, the judiciary, this time at the European level, claims spaces that do not belong to it, in the face of responsibilities that are political,” she said.
