Migrants, Mattarella signs the Albanian bill. Left collapse theorems

While waiting to know if and when the Albanian Constitutional Court will give the green light to the parliamentary procedure regarding the protocol signed on the Rome-Tirana axis for the management of migrants, contested by the opposition, in Italy the bill ratifying the agreement is ready for start your process. The President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, actually signed the authorization to present the measure to the Chambers. The analysis of the bill, according to what we learned, will begin in Montecitorio. In the seven articles that make up the text, reference is made, among other things, to organizational and financial provisions. Among the latter, the detail states that “for the construction of the structures foreseen in the areas” indicated in the protocol (Shengjin for disembarkation and identification procedures and Gjader as a detention center for repatriations) “it is authorized, for the year 2024, the expenditure of 31.2 million euros in favor of the Ministry of the Interior and 8 million euros in favor of the Ministry of Justice”. The costs arising from the constitution of the Protocol’s guarantee fund and the reimbursement of expenses, it is indicated, are “valued at 28 million euros for the year 2024 and at 16.5 million euros for each of the years from 2025 to 2028.” In both areas, it is specified, “only people boarded in vehicles belonging to Italian authorities may be brought outside the territorial sea of ​​the Republic or other Member States of the European Union, also following rescue operations”.

On Friday, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Antonio Tajani, will fly to Albania to visit the locations where the centers will be established under the agreement signed on November 6th at Palazzo Chigi between the first -Albanian minister Edi Rama and Prime Minister Giorgia. Meloni. The latter, however, through social media, as well as reiterating the agreement of views on the migrants dossier with British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak (“the United Kingdom and Italy are working side by side to defend our common values ​​and defeat human traffickers”). , attacks the secretary of the Democratic Party again. “I read in Elly Schlein’s statements that, during my speech in Atreju, I had ‘raised my voice to incite the public against the migrants boarding the boats’ – writes Meloni -. , but I think it is enough. It is clear that talking about the fight against human traffickers, about defending European borders, about providing a true, structural and definitive response to illegal immigration has nothing to do with ‘inciting the public against migrants’”. “Allowing thousands of desperate people to entrust their hopes to unscrupulous people, who put their lives at risk, this is being against migrants”, attacks the prime minister, reiterating that she will continue “to work to put an end to trafficking in human beings and deaths at sea”.

However, here is Schlein’s response, accusing the Prime Minister of not having found, in the long speech given in Atreju, “a single minute to express condolences for the 61 people who drowned in Saturday’s shipwreck”. The dem emphasizes, therefore, that the choices made by the government with the Cutro decree have “the sole purpose of making it more difficult to save lives at sea”. “While you are waging war on NGOs – he adds – you want to send the Italian Coast Guard to Albania to unload the people who survived the shipwrecks as if they were packages, without guaranteeing adequate protection and making Italy spend 300 million that you could have invested in help mayors ensure a widespread and dignified welcome. This is not how to combat human trafficking.”