Giorgia Meloni does not give in. The Italian government, despite the court decision on the viability of the transfer of migrants to closed centers in Albaniakeeps the pulse and tightens the rope with his plan with messages of tension before Italian justice, which he seeks to circumvent with an express law.
Meloni does not want to give up on an unprecedented migration outsourcing plan in Europe and could approve a decree-law for almost immediate adoption in the Council of Ministers in order to remove his project from the courts. This is something that worries legal and human rights experts. This is the case of lawyer Gennaro Santoro, consulted by EFE, who qualifies the agreement with Albania as “contrary to the Italian Constitution”.
“Use the classic strategy of creating an enemy”
The lawyer also highlights the following about the Meloni government: “It acts without legal arguments because it cannot go beyond what is established by the Constitution and the Court of Justice of the European Union. Now it polarizes the discourse, divides and uses the classic strategy of creating an enemy, namely judges.
“The only way he has now is to reproach the magistrates for having red dresses and being left-wing”, account. Matteo Salvini, vice-president of the government, did the same in an interview with RAI.
An intervention strongly criticized by the opposition but also by the main union of television journalists. They consider that the channel left room for Salvini’s “propaganda” by granting him a long time slot to attack Justice.
For his part, the vice-president of the Italian Episcopal Conference, Francesco Savino, tried to calm things down: “When powers are not respected, the heart of democracy is in danger. Migrants are not packages to be throw from one place to another.
Amnesty International has also expressed its concerns about the Meloni government and its plan in favor of migrants. “The human and economic costs of this plan are very high. The government defends that it is seeking to deter migration, but in an international context of severe crisis, we must adopt policies that make it possible to obtain asylum or a better life in safe conditions,” he says Serena Chiodo, AI migration expert, to EFE.
And he goes on to say that everything goes beyond Italy and follows the drift of the EU and the so-called European Pact on Immigration and Asylum. According to her, it provides for “a constant externalization of borders” and must be adopted from 2026.
“It’s the Italian Guantanamo”
According to Federica Borlizzi, lawyer for the Italian Coalition for Freedom and Civil Rights, if the Meloni government persists in its plan to transfer migrants to Albania, it will become illegal. It is a “hellish system”, an “Italian Guantánamo”, and the judgment which called it into question shows it, Borlizzi stressed.
