Italy's Meloni vows to overcome all obstacles to Albanian migrant deal


FILE PHOTO: Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni waits to welcome Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal before a reconstruction meeting for war-battered Ukraine, in Rome, Italy, April 26, 2023. REUTERS/Remo Casilli/File Photo

ROME (Reuters) - Italy's prime minister on Monday vowed to push ahead with a plan to deport irregular migrants to camps built in Albania, which has been stalled by national judges, saying the government had a popular mandate to curb arrivals.

Giorgia Meloni's right-wing government has built two facilities in the Balkan country to hold migrants while processing their asylum requests, but Rome courts have issued repeated counter orders, bringing anyone taken there to Italy.

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