Matteo Salvini, the leader of the Right-wing League party and the deputy prime minister, accused the Rome court of issuing politically motivated decisions. He said the ruling was “another political sentence, not against the government, but against Italians and their safety”. He has previously called judges “communists”.

Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni’s program to screen asylum seekers outside of the European Union borders in Albania has hit another snag.

A Rome court on Monday asked EU judges to weigh in on the detention of sea migrants in Albania, again frustrating the Italian right-wing government's efforts to pursue its flagship plan to crackdown on irregular arrivals.