Italian court refers asylum seekers’ case to ECJ in challenge to Meloni’s migrant deal with Albania

An Italian appeals court has refused to approve the speedy expulsion of 43 asylum seekers detained in Albania under a controversial migration deal to move the proceedings beyond European Union borders. The migrants, whose asylum requests have already been rejected, will now be brought back to Italy, in the third failed attempt by the Meloni government to process migrants in Albania. The appeals court in Rome on Friday referred the case to the European Court of Justice, in Luxembourg, which is expected to issue a ruling on Feb. 25 related to the previous cases.