Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni’s government is pushing through new legislation in a bid to salvage her controversial plan on illegal migration, after a court in Rome blocked her long-delayed program to divert asylum seekers to Albania.

Italian Prime Minister Georgia Meloni hopes to have saved her plan to process migrants entering the country in Albania after her Cabinet agreed a new decree to try to placate the courts. Her initial plans were defeated by judges,

Italy's government on Monday passed a decree aimed at overcoming court objections to its flagship immigration plan that is aimed at deterring boat migrants by sending them to detention camps in Albania.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni vowed to push ahead with a contentious plan to send asylum seekers to Albania after a court in Rome raised objections.

Italian Prime Minister Georgia Meloni's Cabinet was discussing on Monday how to retrieve its plans to process refugees entering the country by sea in Albania following defeat of the initial plan in the courts.

Italy's hard-right government said it would pass a new law Monday to overcome legal opposition to a migrant deal with Albania, as Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni accused judges of political bias. Meloni on Friday slammed the ruling as "prejudiced" and said she had called a cabinet meeting Monday "to approve laws to overcome this obstacle,