Premier Giorgia Meloni on Monday told
the Conference of Italian prefects and police chiefs that light
must be shed on legislation defining the concept of safe
countries for repatriating migrants and for the European Court
of Justice to avoid the risk of compromising the repatriation
policies of Italy and the European Union's member States.
"It will be important to clarify" legislation on safe
countries "and for the European Court of Justice to avoid the
risk of compromising the repatriation policies not only of Italy
but of all member States of the European Union", Meloni said.
She stressed how the argument of the "supremacy of European
legislation over Italian" law based on which "the Italian law on
safe countries is not applied" appears to be "fragile" given
that Germany "repatriates to Afghanistan without this being
deemed as going against European law by German judges". Italy's
innovative but controversial protocol with Albania to process
migrants in the non-EU country and thus deter departures has so
far been stymied by Italian courts with the detention of the
first three batches of migrants sent to Albania quashed pending
a European Court of Justice ruling, expected next week, on safe
countries of origin. And speaking about the protocol between
Italy and Albania, Meloni said we "are determined to find a
solution to each obstacle that appears". The premier told the
Conference of Italian prefects and police chiefs that the
Albanian project will continue "not only because we believe in
the protocol, but also because we claim the right of politics to
govern and the duty of politics to take responsibility".
Moreover, Meloni went on to say, "the indication of the majority
of citizens on migration flows has been very clear: they are
asking us to stop illegal immigration which produces insecurity
and lack of integration", among others.
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