Pillar of Rome’s new migration policy, the great Albanian project of the president of the Italian Council, Giorgia Meloni, is taking shape with the complicity of her counterpart and “friend” from Tirana, Edi Rama. On Monday, October 14, almost a year after the signing between the far-right leader and the Social Democrat of a memorandum of understanding that provides for the construction of detention centers in accordance with Italian law on Albanian territory, a first group of migrants rescued at sea by the authorities of Rome was heading towards the Balkan country aboard the Poundan Italian navy ship.
After their disembarkation, scheduled for Wednesday, the castaways will be held behind the fences of these rights of way in containers barely elevated from the ground, where their asylum application must be processed according to the procedures in force in Italy. . Shapeme Meloni, this device has a deterrent purpose. But the legal and especially logistical feasibility of what is supposed to constitute one of the great achievements of his mandate continues to raise doubts.
Responding to a simple aspiration, the implementation of the agreement is complex. In fact, these are only immigrants rescued in international waters by Italian ships and considered not vulnerable. Women, minors, people suffering from mental disorders, victims of torture, sexual violence and human trafficking must be preserved and sent to Italy.
Video conferencing system
Once disembarked, the first migrants detained there must be identified at a structure in the port of Shengjin and then transferred to the administrative detention center located in a former military base in Gjader, where up to 880 people can be detained. The asylum procedure will be possible thanks to a videoconference system that will connect the Albanian centers with the court in Rome, where judges will be able to supervise the hearings. Communication between asylum seekers and their lawyers will take place in the same way, with decisions being made within a period of twenty-eight days.
In an international context marked by the electoral successes of the extreme right, by widespread tension over the immigration issue and by a questioning of the right to asylum as it is currently formulated, Ms.me Meloni presents a certain attraction for its European partners. Berlin has already expressed its interest in the “Albanian model”. In London, the Labor Government welcomes a project considered better legally framed and less costly than the ruinous agreement with Rwanda, which has already cost the United Kingdom 280 million euros before being abandoned without having started. On the French side, we are waiting to judge the evidence. With curiosity.
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