How and why Meloni and Rama are tugging Europe on migrants
The explicit and hidden objectives of the agreement between Italy and Albania on migrants. Guiglia's notebook
The beginning of a solution in the name of realism or a mess in the name of propaganda? As expected, the majority and the opposition are already divided on the agreement signed at Palazzo Chigi between the Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni and Edi Rama, Albanian Prime Minister, to create, from spring 2024, two Italian identification and repatriation centers at beyond the Adriatic, port of Shengjin. 36 thousand people per year are expected.
In essence, Rome will be able to detain migrants who disembark in Albania while waiting to understand whether in the countries from which they come they are or fear being persecuted "for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a specific social group or opinions policies” (Geneva Convention, 1951) and therefore with the right to remain as protected refugees. Or if they find themselves without the necessary requirements to stay.
THE DIFFICULT EUROPEAN IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PACT ON MIGRANTS
A complicated operation with intricate legal implications, which already makes its implementation difficult in the European Union, where respect for rules and for those arriving is very arbitrary. And outside the EU, Great Britain wants to send migrants to Rwanda.
In reality, and unlike all the others, our country is the only one that has not built walls or fences and guarded its borders with armed men so as not to even welcome potential refugees (of which, according to the crazy system- Dublin, the State of first port of call, almost always Italy alone, must take responsibility).
Therefore, the Rome-Tirana agreement (Albanian territory, Italian management) is at least a shock for Brussels, which, having never followed up on requests to consider immigration a European problem, now finds itself having to deal with a surprise with an unprecedented initiative. And which takes place in a nation that is not yet EU. Even if Italy, not only in exchange for help, has always pushed for Tirana to join the Union.
WHAT WILL THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT DO?
It will now be necessary to see in what way, scope of competence and with what legal procedures Parliament will give shape and content to the agreement. Both to deal with the already announced appeals of those who evoke an "Italian Guantanamo in Albania" and a judiciary that has already shown, with migrant-free measures, that it does not appreciate the hard line in the field of rights. Both so that the "historic and innovative" agreement, as the majority defines it, does not also fail at the first landing to be managed.
But for now there is only the announcement amidst applause and controversy. Both strong.
(Published in L'Arena di Verona, Il Giornale di Vicenza and Bresciaoggi)
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This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/patto-italia-albania-migranti-europa/ on Fri, 10 Nov 2023 04:23:28 +0000.