Published: October 31st, 2024,
Last updated: May 28th, 2025

The Italian right-wing government’s plans to accommodate Mediterranean refugees outside the EU are becoming a case for European justice. At the request of a court in Bologna, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in Luxembourg is to examine a new decree with which the right-wing Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni wants to save her project. Her first attempt to have a decision made on asylum applications from migrants in a camp in Albania failed because of the Italian judiciary. The two recently opened camps are now empty again.