Meloni says up to govt to define what is a safe country

(ANSA) - ROME, OCT 18 - It is up to the government to define what is a safe country in terms of migration, Premier Giorgia Meloni said Friday after a Rome court struck down the detention of the first 12 migrants to be taken to new processing centres in Albania after an October 4 European Court of Justice ruling that their provenance countries, Bangladesh and Egypt, were not safe.
    "I have called a Council of Ministers (cabinet meeting, ed. ) for Monday to approve the rules that serve to overcome this obstacle," Meloni told a press briefing in Beirut.
    "I do not believe it is up to the judiciary to define which countries are safe and which are not.
    "It is up to the government, so I believe that the government must clarify better what is meant by a safe country". (ANSA).