ITALY: The country’s highest appeals court has ordered the government to compensate migrants who were stranded at sea for days on a coast guard vessel in 2018 due to then interior minister Matteo Salvini’s anti-migration policies.

Premier Giorgia Meloni slammed the court decision today as “questionable” and “frustrating.”

The ruling, which overturns a previous decision, ordered the Italian government to pay for damages inflicted at the time of the standoff.