The 27 leaders of the European Union address a key meeting on the issue of immigration. Many partners have called for toughening asylum policies and speeding up expulsion mechanisms. However, the Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Melonihas promoted a meeting prior to the summit with “like-minded” leaders, including the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen.
Since the German sent a letter to all governments to start the debate on what he defined as “imaginative solutions” To deal with immigration, Meloni’s initiative to open deportation centers outside its borders seemed to seduce her. So much so that the Italian has assured in statements to the press that “many countries observe” the immigration policies that Italy is carrying out in recent days, the reason that led her to call said meeting.
The list of those “similar” in immigration matters has not been made public, but Europa Press suggests that around a dozen countries will attend, including Poland, Hungary, Malta or Greece; and even the German chancellor, Olaf Scholz. On the contrary, it is assured that the Baltic countries, which allege a previous meeting, will not attend, nor will the President of the Government, Pedro Sanchezwhich flatly rejects creating deportation centers outside the European Union to transfer irregular migrants who have been denied asylum, pending their expulsion to the country of origin or a transit country.
In her letter, the head of the community Executive asked the 27 to “learn lessons” from Italy’s experience with Albaniain reference to the agreement by which the far-right Government of Meloni has agreed to the transfer to this country of migrants rescued by the Italian authorities at sea while their expulsion files are resolved.
“It is not a final solution, Albania is not an island where you can lock up migrants, so I would say it is a temporary solution,” warned Robert Golob, Slovenian Prime Minister, in statements to the press.
Besides, Poland announced this week its intention to suspend asylum rules on its border with Belarus -as he did Finland in July – due to migratory pressure that he attributes to “hybrid attacks” orchestrated by Russia and Belarus to instrumentalize migration.
However, the Government of the Netherlands could explore a new possibility: sending to Uganda asylum seekers whose applications have been rejected, as recognized by the Minister of Foreign Trade. Reinette Kleverthis Wednesday during a visit to the African country.
The project, still undeveloped, is shown as the Dutch response to Italy’s migration plan. Addresses the issue along the same lines as the United Kingdom’s Rwanda plan, prepared by the Conservative Party and canceled by the Labor ‘premier’ Keir Starmer this summer. If carried out, Uganda would receive financial remuneration in exchange for hosting asylum seekers.
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