(Finance) – Green light in the Council of Ministers for a law decree on migrants. The provision, in fact, should make the indication of safe countries for repatriation a primary norm, and no longer secondary, as is instead the decree of the Foreign Minister, in concert with those of the Interior and Justice, with which up to now it has been annually updated the list, as explained in press conference.
Our provision “arises from a very complex and detailed ruling of the European Court of Justice which was probably not well understood or well read” by the judges”, underlines the Minister of Justice Carlo Nordio in a press conference at Palazzo Chigi. “The subjects are of uncertain citizenship and their origin is declared by themselves, they have no documents and there is no proof that they come from certain countries, which means devolving to the discretion of these people the definition of the safety parameters or otherwise from which they say they come”.
With today’s decree it becomes “primary source is the indication of the list of 19 safe countries out of the original 22: we took into account territorial integrity and excluded Cameroon, Colombia and Nigeria”, specified the Minister of the Interior Matteo Piantedosi specifying that the list of safe countries “becomes a primary rule and allows judges to have a parameter with respect to a vague interpretation. We have had several hundred previous cases of decisions that we do not agree with and we have legitimately challenged. Now it is the rule of law and we offer an assessment made by law”.
Therefore, the clash between the Government and officials on the issue of Albania and migrants does not subside. “We are not against the government, it would be absurd to think that the judicial order, an institution of the country, is against an institution of the country such as political power. It is not the institutional clash that we tend towards, we tend to defend the “autonomy and independence of the judiciary”, the president said of the National Association of Magistrates Giuseppe Santalucia.
(Photo: Courtesy of the Palazzo Chigi press office)