Europe's top court questioned the legitimacy of the "safe countries" list Italy uses to send migrants to Albania.

A ruling by the EU's top court has dealt a further blow to Italy's attempts to create a fast-track system in Albania for processing asylum applications offshore.

Meloni struck a deal with Albania in 2023 to transfer some Italy-bound migrants to Italian-run processing centres there for a fast-track evaluation of asylum claims deemed unlikely to succeed. However,