MILAN (AP) — Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s program to screen refugees outside the European Union Borders in Albania reached another impasse on Monday when a court in Rome refused to rule on a formal request to detain seven migrants Transferred to the Balkans nation last week.

The decision means that seven migrants from Bangladesh and Egypt will be brought to Italy on a navy ship just days after their arrival in Albania.

This is a repeat of what happened first 12 immigrants The program also included people who were returned to Italy by another court decision last month, shortly after two Italian-run immigration screening centers opened in Albania.

In both cases, the courts referred the cases to the EU Court of Justice in Luxembourg to decide whether the migrants’ countries of origin were considered safe countries for return. The first 12 people were from Egypt and Bangladesh.

The court’s move raised the ire of Meloni’s far-right-led government, which is seeking strategies to ease the pressure on immigrants arriving in Italy in search of a better life in Europe.

In its latest decision, the court stated that it wanted clarification on which countries were determined to be safe “simply to determine which procedure to apply.”

“The removal of a state from the list of safe countries of origin does not prevent the repatriation and/or deportation of immigrants whose asylum applications are rejected,” the court said in its decision.

Under the five-year agreement, Albania will allow Italy to operate two migrant centers on its territory with the capacity to screen up to 3,000 migrants per month to be examined for asylum or sent back to their home countries.

Human rights groups and non-governmental organizations operating in the Mediterranean criticized the agreement as a dangerous precedent that contradicts international law.

Italy has so far been unable to identify anywhere close to that number for possible screening in Albania, despite thousands of people arriving on Italian shores since the centers opened. Immigrants sent to Albania must be adult males, travel without family members, and come from countries deemed safe.