Rome Court Asks EU Judges to Intervene Over Italy–Albania Migrant Scheme

Italy’s groundbreaking Albania asylum seeker scheme hit another bump in the legal road on Monday after a court in Rome asked EU judges to weigh in on the detention of boat migrants in the Balkan nation. The move has once again thrown a spanner in the works of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s plans to deter illegal arrivals by holding migrants in a separate “third country.” Rome built migrant camps in Albania to hold some of the arrivals from North Africa while their asylum applications were processed, rather than allowing them to stay on Italian soil. Last week, a group from Egypt and Bangladesh was taken across the Adriatic for processing after being picked up at sea....