Govt to approve decree to fix Albania migrant centres issue

(ANSA) - ROME, OCT 21 - Premier Giorgia Meloni's cabinet is set to approve a decree later on Monday aimed as solving the legal issue that led a Rome court to refuse to validate the detention of 12 migrants at a newly opened Italian-run centre in Gjader, Albania.
    The court gave the thumbs down to first group of migrants being held at one of the centres Italy has set up on Albanian territory in the basis of a controversial agreement with Tirana on the grounds that their countries of provenance, Bangladesh and Egypt, could not be considered safe.
    Government sources have said the decree will set a list of safe countries.
    On Friday, Meloni said it was up to the government to define what is a safe country in terms of migration.
    The Rome court's decision sparked an angry reaction from leading cabinet members, with Deputy Premier and Transport Minister Matteo Salvini accusing judges of being "politicised". (ANSA).