Italy resumes the transfer of immigrants to the centers of Shengjin and Gjader in Albania after an interruption of almost two months. The Cassiopea ship, from the Military Navy, started from the waters of Lampedusa Island with 49 rescued immigrants … in the Mediterranean by Italian patrols. In the two previous transfers – in October and November of last year – the immigration judges of the Court of Rome did not validate the transfer of immigrants to Albania, claiming that they could not be repatriated to their countries of origin because they did not meet guarantees of «security ».
Some came from Egypt and Bangladesh, nations that, according to several magistrates and human rights organizations, do not conform to the definition of safe state required by community regulations. Immigration judges ordered immigrants to return to Italy; In total, only two dozen people in the first two operations.
In December, the Supreme Court established that the definition of safe countries “is the exclusive responsibility of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and other ministers involved.” According to the court ruling, it corresponds to the policy “evaluate any specific circumstance” that could generate specific risks for the individual asylum seeker if he returns to his country of origin. This sentence has been decisive for the Meloni government to resume immigrant shipping operations to Albania.
The Executive did not even want to wait for the pronouncement to be carried out on the case on February 25, the European Union Court of Justice. Government’s hurries have two fundamental motivations: on the one hand, immigrants to Italy have increased in recent days; On the other hand, the international context has been taken into account: the new US president, Donald Trump, initiated massive expulsions, while the vice president and croad dubravka Šuica, visiting Rome, has praised the Italian initiative. “The Italy-Albania project is an innovative solution that we are studying for the repatriation directive,” said Commissioner Dubravka Šuica. About fifteen EU countries support the Meloni government initiative.
The Italian opposition is very critical. “That Trump’s madman is giving the reason to the European right, with the terrible photo of chained immigrants uploaded to an plane,” said Elisabetta Piccolotti, of the Left Green Alliance. The greatest criticism of the Government is the cost of the two centers in Albania, for which about 36,000 immigrants will pass every year: about 800 million euros in 5 years.
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