8 minutes agoEU seeks details on refugee agreement between Albania, Italy
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(3 years ago)The European Commission has requested information on details of the agreement Rome and Tirana have signed, where Italy is allowed to establish immigrant centres in Albania, an EU executive spokesman said on Tuesday. We are in contact with Italian authorities. We have asked to take details of the migration agreement with Albania,” said the spokeswoman, [...]
We are in contact with Italian authorities. We have sought to take details of the migration agreement with Albania,” said the spokeswoman, Anita Hyper.
Before commenting on it further, we need to understand exactly what the target is”, she added further.
The spokeswoman stressed that the Commission was informed of the agreement prior to its signing Monday.
It summed up that “seems different” with the agreement Britain has with Rwanda to send immigrants to the African country.
What does the agreement predict?
Italian jurisdiction at two centres established in Albania for rescue migrants at sea.
Almost a kind of tricolor protectorate whose goal is to curb human trafficking.
It is one of the points announced by Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Melon, along with Prime Minister Edi Rama, regarding the memorandum of understanding between Italy and Albania for managing the migration flows.
The agreement will not apply to immigrants arriving on Italian shores and territory, but exclusively to those saved at sea, except to minors, pregnant women and vulnerable subjects.
The structures created, explained, will be able to accommodate a total of up to 3 thousand immigrants, for a prediction of 39 thousand people welcomed in one year.
The agreement aims to prevent evacuations and create prevention against human trafficking.
The protocol was essentially closed last August and will be operational in the spring of 2024.
It is the first agreement of this type, a historic agreement not only for Italy, but for the entire European Union”, Palazzo Chigi said.
Where will the structures be established?
“In the port of Stingen we will deal with the landing and identification procedures, while in another more internal area a new structure will be established based on the model of the Reatdation Control Centres (Cpr)”, Mellon explained, adding that Albanian police forces will co-operate to ensure “security and external supervision of the “structures.
Rama said that, “n will not be able in the years to come, to predict and ourselves here that we may have ahead of us, to pay that debt we have towards Italy, the Italian people and Italian institutions for what they have done for us from the first day that we have reached the coast of this sea shore to find support and to have a better life of”.
However, Rama added as I said on other occasions, if Italy calls, Albania answers.
I can't and I don't want to judge on political credit for decisions, but we are always in attendance when we might be able to help, to help, and in this case, to help and manage with little to manage a situation, for a situation that is difficult for Italy”.
More than 145 thousand people have gone ashore in Italy so far in 2023, compared to about 88 thousand in the same period in 2022.
The Melon administration has already exacerbated prison conditions for smugglers of human beings and decided to increase the number of detention centres across the country to keep immigrants before their possible repatriation.
Melon's right-right party has long demanded that such items be erected outside the European Union, proposing North Africa, for example, but no country from that region had accepted it.
