The Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloniassured this Wednesday that the migrant holding centers which has built on Albanian territory”will work“, despite the judicial setback that it has suffered as soon as it opened them.
“I expected there would be obstacles but they will be overcome. Italy-Albania agreement will work,” the far-right promised in a forum for the newspaper’s 80th anniversary. Il Tempo.
Meloni expressed his “determination to move forward”. “I will not allow a solution that we have thought of in full respect of Italian and European law to be dismantled because a part of the policy does not agree,” he promised.
The prime minister has built and opened two centers to hold migrants in the Albanian towns of Shengjin and Gjader, on the other side of the Adriatic Sea, agreed with the prime minister of that country, the socialist Edi Rama.
The main objectives of this controversial immigration strategy are to alleviate migrant repatriations and the pressure on the Italian reception system.
Therefore, a week ago the first 16 migrants arrivedof Egyptian and Bangladeshi nationalities, on board a military ship, but four They had to be immediately returned to Italy for being minors or being considered “vulnerable”.
However, two days later the Court of Rome did not validate the retention of the remaining twelve and ordered his return to Italyclaiming that Egypt and Bangladesh could not be considered safe countries in their entirety.
The ruling, in turn supported by a recent ruling by the Court of Justice of the European Union, has opened a strong fight between the Italian Government and a part of the judiciary, which it accuses of playing politics.
That is why it has approved a decree law that establishes the list of “safe countries” –among these Egypt and Bangladesh–, that is, from which migrants have the most difficulty obtaining asylum and, therefore, can be repatriated more easily.
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