Migrants, a mess is an understatement. Judges reject Albania model and government appeals. The prime minister Giorgia Meloni he is furious. Of course, at the moment, there is that they returned to Italy today on board a military vessel i twelve migrants for which the Court of Rome did not validate the detention in the Italian repatriation center in Albania. They landed in Bari and, although their asylum request has already been rejected, they will have 14 days to file an objection. Meanwhile, the right-wing government is appealing Meloni's traction against the Court's decision. The Prime Minister, together with the League, accuses the "judicial left". The Minister of Justice, Carlo Nordio, warn the magistrates thus raising the tension. The Democratic Party reacts, asks for the resignation of the Minister of Justice and accuses the government of wanting to interfere with the judiciary. The EU, in all this, "is in contact with the Italian authorities". Council of Ministers called for Monday : we are moving towards a decree law.
Migrants, the tone rises with Nordio's words
Hours pass, and on the day of the migrants' expected return to Italy the tones rise even more. It is the same Keeper of the Seals, Nordius, to speak bluntly of "abnormal sentence” and of a judiciary that "exceeds its powers". Meanwhile, the Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini urgently calls a meeting of the League's leaders and announces a mobilization against "the attack on Italy and Italians launched by a section of the politicized judiciary". oppositions build a wall and stigmatize the clash carried out by the executive against an "autonomous and independent power". The secretary of the Democratic Party, Elly Schlein, warns: “No one is above the law, least of all the government.”
Migrants in Albania, what happened: Meloni's anger
For Meloni, therefore, it is, once again, a "specious" and even "arrogant" act. Which seeks to block the government's action. In a press briefing in Beirut the prime minister lets all her irritation shine through “prejudicial” decision of the judiciary, which rejected the transfers of the first migrants to the centers in Albania. A protocol that Italy aims to make a European model, supported by the President of the EU Commission herself, Ursula von der Leyen.
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Migrants in Albania: Towards a Legislative Decree?
To take cover already in the Council of Ministers on Monday Meloni announced new rules (aiming, among other things, to speed up the examination of asylum applications and, perhaps, to review the mechanisms of appeals, the hypothesis is a decree law, therefore immediately operational, that intervenes on the "safe countries"). The new rules will have to reiterate - in law - that it is up to the government, not the judges, to indicate which countries are safe. Otherwise, is the reasoning that is being made in these hours at the highest levels of the executive, no action to combat illegal immigration will be feasible. In essence, it will be impossible to implement a "border defense policy“A “forcing”, an action that goes beyond the limits, that “overrides every prerogative of government and Parliament”, are the analyses that are bouncing among the exponents of the executive.
Migrants in Albania, a clash between government and judiciary
It's not just the things that make you nervous the order of the court of Rome, against which an appeal is already ready, but also the fact that it had already been anticipated the day before by exponents of the "left". Another element that would confirm, according to the Melonians, that there is a part of the judiciary that is politicized. That the decision is "prejudicial", says the Prime Minister herself, "is demonstrated" by the fact that "some of these judges had criticized the agreement with Albania even before entering into the merits", in addition to the advance by "representatives of the Democratic party“A fact, Meloni underlines, that cannot fail to “strike”.
Sparks between the Keepers of the Seals and the opposition: what they said
In the meantime, while we wait to understand how the Council of Ministers will move on Monday, the owner of Justice Nordio he confirms: "We will intervene with legislative measures“. Nordio begins: “As a former magistrate I would consider it almost sacrilegious to think that the government to which I belong would declare war on the judiciary, as it is not and never will be”. Having said this, “if the judiciary overflows its powers, as in this case by attributing to itself prerogatives such as that of defining a safe State, then politics must intervene, because politics expresses the will of the people". In short, he underlines, the government's reaction to the sentence "is not against the judiciary, but against the merit of this sentence", "a sentence that not only we do not share but we actually consider abnormal". "These are questions of high politics that should not be left to the judiciary and will not be left to the judiciary", finally assures the Keeper of the Seals.
Of a completely different opinion is the Democratic leader, Schlein, which judges “the institutional conflict fueled by the government against the judiciary is very serious to cover up their inability. It is not the fault of the judges or the opposition if they do not know how to read the laws and the sentences”. The secretary of the Democratic Party arrives at the paradox: “They should not think they can circumvent the sentence because to circumvent a sentence of the Court of Justice of the EU they would have to leave the European Union”.
Migrants in Albania, what is Europe doing?
The problem with transfers in Albania is also followed closely by Brussels, but there is no air of alarm in the Berlaymont building since the device, they reason with theHandle sources close to the dossier, at first reading it does not seem to concern the protocol with Albania in itself but the Definition of safe countries. This is a point on which a European intervention could arrive, aimed at giving a new definition, precisely, of a safe country. The reference point remains the Migration and Asylum Pact in which, compared to the current regulations, there is a substantial novelty: for a country to be safe, it is enough that it is “partially” safe. The flaw, therefore, would not be in the Albania Protocol which, for the President of the Commission, remains valid and viable. It is no coincidence that sources of the EU executive, questioned on the decision of the Italian judges, limited themselves to a calm acknowledgement”.
Politically, however, the issue remains delicate: on the eve of the hearings for the confirmation of the new commissioners Ue Tensions, especially with the socialists and Renew, were high from the start and the migrant issue can only exacerbate tempers. Berlin e Madrid they had already opted out and also Paris, after an initial hesitation, clarified that "the Albanian model cannot be transferred to France".
Migrants, Elon Musk also joins the controversy
“Insane”, meaning crazy, absurd, senseless: with this adjective in a tweet Elon Musk, comments on the message of another X user who, regarding the decision of the Rome court on migrants in Albania, claimed that “defending the borders of a nation should not be a crime”, also publishing the video in which Prime Minister Meloni criticized the judges' choice. A month ago, the Tesla and X boss defended Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini in similar tones, when at the trial Open Arms the closing argument against him was held: “That crazy prosecutor,” Musk wrote in a tweet on September 14, “should be the one who goes to prison for 6 years, this is crazy.”
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