Published: October 22nd, 2024,
Last updated: May 28th, 2025

Italy’s right-wing Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni wants to save her model for accommodating Mediterranean refugees outside the EU with a new decree. Her government passed a modified regulation at an extraordinary meeting in Rome on Monday evening. In particular, this concerns which home countries of asylum seekers can be legally classified as safe countries of origin in future. Italy is the first country that wants to decide on asylum applications outside the EU.