BY Kurt Zindulka
Rome has accused the European Union’s top court of interfering with national sovereignty after a ruling on Friday threw the future of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s plans to combat illegal immigration in doubt.
A case brought forward by two Bangladeshi illegal migrants before the Strasbourg-based European Court of Justice (ECJ) against Italy after being removed from the country and sent to an asylum processing centre in Albania undermined a key plank of the scheme, broadcaster RAI reports.
The ruling found that EU member states can only determine safe countries for the return of migrants if they provide evidence and allow for judicial review, meaning that one judge could block the deportation to countries they deem unsafe.
The ECJ said that the designation may not include countries that “do not offer sufficient protection to their entire population”. This could potentially mean that countries like the United States could be deemed unsafe for return, given that some states allow the death penalty, a justification that Italian judges have used to block the deportation of illegals to Egypt.
The decision comes despite the European Commission listing both Egypt and Bangladesh as “safe countries” in April to speed up returns. However, the court said that this designation will only be binding after the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum comes into effect in July of next year.
The ECJ ruling represents a major blow to the Albanian scheme negotiated by the Meloni government in 2023 to immediately send boat migrants to the processing centres in the Balkan nation rather than allowing them to remain in Italy after breaking into the country illegally via the Mediterranean Sea.
full story at https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2025/08/02/melonis-italy-blasts-top-eu-courts-deportation-ruling-as-an-attack-on-national-sovereignty/
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