In its duel against the judges, the Meloni government is pushing hard to save its policy of outsourcing migrants. After the blocking by Italian justice of the transfer of the first exiles to the new centers in Albania, a decree was adopted on Monday October 21 to circumvent the legal obstacle and include in the law the countries considered safe to justify the rapid expulsions of asylum seekers. ‘asylum.
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With our correspondent in Italy, Blandine Hugonnet
The list of safe countries, “ it is politics that establishes it and not the courts “. The dots were put on the i’s on Monday by the Council of Ministers. He adopted a decree which included in law a controversial list of 19 countries deemed safe enough by Rome to repatriate migrants.
This text is a way for the executive to lock in the rules to be applied by theItaly and circumvent European standards. In any case, with this list, Rome wants to twist the arms of Italian judges who believe that some of the countries on this list are too risky to send the exiles back there.
Justice criticizes Italy for having indicated, for certain cases, regions and not the entire country. It is with this argument that the judges imposed the repatriation of 12 migrants – Bangladeshis and Egyptians – from Albania. This court decision was a severe setback for Giorgia Meloniwho has continued to brandish this outsourcing as a “ innovative model » to simplify and speed up evictions.
The Minister of the Interior, Matteo Piantedosi, therefore explained that with the decree of October 21, the indication of the list of 19 safe countries out of the 22 originals becomes “ a primary source “. “ We took into account territorial integrity and excluded Cameroonthere Colombia and the Nigeria “, he added.
The confrontation over the centers in Albania should not stop there, however, because even with this decree-law, jurists warn, it is indeed European legislation which prevails despite everything, while, as the press deciphers here, through this duel over the fate of migrants behind the scenes, Italian sovereignists are trying to impose on Brussels their cherished principle of “ Italians first “.
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