(ANSA) - ROME, 17 FEB - Premier Giorgia Meloni on Monday told the Conference of Italian prefects and police chiefs that light must be shed on legislation defining the concept of safe countries for repatriating migrants and for the European Court of Justice to avoid the risk of compromising the repatriation policies of Italy and the European Union's member States. "It will be important to clarify" legislation on safe countries "and for the European Court of Justice to avoid the risk of compromising the repatriation policies not only of Italy but of all member States of the European Union", Meloni said. She stressed how the argument of the "supremacy of European legislation over Italian" law based on which "the Italian law on safe countries is not applied" appears to be "fragile" given that Germany "repatriates to Afghanistan without this being deemed as going against European law by German judges". Italy's innovative but controversial protocol with Albania to process migrants in the non-EU country and thus deter departures has so far been stymied by Italian courts with the detention of the first three batches of migrants sent to Albania quashed pending a European Court of Justice ruling, expected next week, on safe countries of origin. And speaking about the protocol between Italy and Albania, Meloni said we "are determined to find a solution to each obstacle that appears". The premier told the Conference of Italian prefects and police chiefs that the Albanian project will continue "not only because we believe in the protocol, but also because we claim the right of politics to govern and the duty of politics to take responsibility". Moreover, Meloni went on to say, "the indication of the majority of citizens on migration flows has been very clear: they are asking us to stop illegal immigration which produces insecurity and lack of integration", among others. (ANSA).