The Italian government is preparing a new legal initiative to keep the reception centers for asylum seekers in Albania operational.
According to media reports, Giorgia Meloni's cabinet intends to remove the right of migration judges to make decisions even in the Court of Appeals.
The effort comes after Friday's decision by the Rome Court of Appeal, which returned to Italy the third group of 45 asylum seekers sent to the Gjadri camp earlier this week for the assessment of their asylum claims in Italy.
The Appeals decision also had the same result as the two previous ones from the lower court of Rome, on October 18 and November 11, although after these decisions, Meloni's ruling majority influenced the Rome court to be stripped of its powers to decide on immigrant cases and for them to be decided at a higher level, in the Court of Appeals.
The Court of Appeals was also ruled by 5 judges taken from the same section for immigrants of the Court of Rome, according to the permission granted by the head of the Appeals.
There are also voices within the government that call for a ruling to be awaited from the European Court of Justice, which is considering the matter. A hearing on the matter will take place on February 25, but a decision is not expected until the spring at the earliest.
When a fourth ship with migrants will arrive in Shëngjin is now even more unclear, despite Meloni's insistence on implementing the agreement with Albania.