Giorgia Meloni has vowed to press ahead with Italy’s controversial policy to divert migrants to Albania despite a court ruling blocking the move.

The Italian right-wing government has said it intends to continue to pursue plans to examine asylum applications outside the EU, despite a legal defeat over the processing of the first group of migrants that arrived at Italy's new camps set up in Albania.

Giorgia Meloni‘s far-right government has launched a programme to send asylum seekers to detention centres in Albania. This idea has garnered support from several conservative governments across the EU.