Overview

• The EU Court of Justice ruled that legislative safe-country designations must ensure effective judicial review, accessible evidence and full protection for all residents.
• Italy’s protocol to process migrants in Albanian centres under an accelerated border procedure is suspended until the EU’s new asylum regulation takes effect.
• Rome denounced the decision as a judicial overreach into political responsibility, lobbying EU partners to accelerate reform of migration rules.
• Italy’s national judges joined opposition parties in praising the ruling as a vindication of the rule of law that reinforces EU legal safeguards.
• France, Germany and the European Commission backed the principle that parliaments may list safe countries by law, underscoring the necessity of transparent criteria with court oversight in EU asylum negotiations.