Albania summit says 'forward on innovative solutions'

A summit on Italy's so-far-legally-stymied and controversial scheme to run migrant processing centres in Albania ended with the conviction that the government can go ahead with it on the basis of a recent ruling from the supreme Court of Cassation that it is up to national governments to decide which countries are safe for repatriation, Premier Giorgia Meloni's office at Palazzo Chigi in Rome said, CE Report quotes ANSA.

Chigi issued a statement saying:

"Also in light of the recent ruling of the Court of Cassation that indicated the competences relating to the identification of countries of safe origin at a national level, the summit reiterated the firm intention to continue working, together with EU partners and in line with the Conclusions of the European Council of 19 December, on the so-called 'innovative solutions' to the migratory phenomenon".