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Last night, Giorgia Meloni’s cabinet approved a new bill to legally establish a list of 19 safe countries of origin, after a court ruling blocked Italy’s first attempt at transferring migrants intercepted in the Mediterranean to newly built detention centres in Albania. The cohort of 16 asylum seekers from Egypt and Bangladesh were transferred to the designated facility in Gjadër from Lampedusa on Wednesday. Four of them were immediately transferred back because they were underage or in poor health; two days later, a court in Rome ordered the remaining 12 back to Italy on the basis that their home countries could not be considered ‘safe’, citing a recent ruling by the Court of Justice of the European Union. Meloni has described the Albania system as a model for others to follow and Italy has so far spent an estimated €60 million setting it up.
