The 4 purposes of the Meloni-Rama agreement on migrants in Albania
The government's objectives with the Italy-Albania agreement on migrants
I believe that no euro was spent, or rather better invested than the 80 that Giorgia Meloni, on holiday in Albania, had our ambassador pay in August to a restaurant in Berat from which four Italians had fled without paying their miserable bill of 20 euros each. I have reason to think that even then the prime minister was negotiating with her counterpart in Albania the agreement signed yesterday at Palazzo Chigi to deposit in that land – even if critics and opponents prefer to speak of "deportation" – just under 40 thousand migrants a year. year rescued in the Mediterranean by Italian ships. But not destined, due to overcrowding, to collection centers in Italy for their recognition and disposal of reception or rejection practices. All at Italian expense, giving Albania just one more reason to continue to be supported by our government – now with greater conviction or interest – in the process of joining the European Union.
DOES ALBANIA SUPPORT ITALY?
In giving news of this "Albanian rescue" to Italy, where in due course we would rescue many migrants from Albania remembered with gratitude by the head of the government of Tirana, the Republic – the paper one – also made a headline about Edi's "unscrupulous move Rama”, who is precisely the prime minister of the country across the street from ours, on the other coast of the Adriatic. But, for this reason, if we want to mistake the unexpected for unscrupulous, we must say that Meloni was also unscrupulous. Which with a "move", again to stick to the term used by Repubblica , has achieved at least four important objectives in managing the problem of migrants inherited from an infinite number of governments that preceded it. And which has worsened further with the latest geopolitical changes, including the war in Gaza which is multiplying escapes from desperation.
THE OBJECTIVES OF THE AGREEMENT ON MIGRANTS
The first objective is to materially lighten Italy's physical exposure by making two collection centers available in Albania.
The second objective is to make more ashamed, if they still have a sense of decency, the countries of the European Union which promise in words to help Italy but in reality continue to burden it with the inconveniences of forming with its coasts the southern border of the old continent.
The third objective is to remove a few tens of thousands of migrants from the ease with which the Italian judiciary in our territory orders them to be left free, even to escape, before their positions are defined.
The fourth objective, last in the order that came to me when writing about it but not in terms of relevance, is to take into account, not the smugglers, who are beasts, but the poor people who end up in their clutches the possibility of ending up, in their escape, not in Italy but, precisely, in Albania.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/accordo-italia-albania-migranti/ on Tue, 07 Nov 2023 08:49:48 +0000.