Salvini migrant decree not retroactive

(ANSA) - Rome, February 19 - Interior Minister Matteo Salvini's migrants-security decree, which clamped down on migrants' stay permits, is not retroactive, the supreme Court of Cassation said Tuesday.
    It ruled that applications already filed will have to be examined according to the former norms on permits for humanitarian reasons.
    If there are the premises, it said, the permit that is issued will have the label 'special cases', as envisaged by the decree, and will last two years, after which the new regime will kick in.