Migrants: Meloni, protocol with Albania is becoming common practice

Rome, 10 December. (LaPresse) – ‘Italy is committed to proposing innovative solutions’ to the issue of migration management, “which are now being viewed with growing interest and are gradually becoming common practice. I am referring first and foremost to the protocol we signed with Albania. To manage asylum requests and repatriation procedures outside the EU but under European jurisdiction, this model has been part of the process undertaken at European level, as demonstrated by the agreement reached a few days ago by EU interior ministers on the introduction of the concept of safe third countries and the European list of safe countries of origin, as well as the new regulation on repatriation, which provides for the possibility of establishing repatriation hubs and third countries.” This was stated by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, speaking via video link at the second International Conference of the Global Alliance to Combat Migrant Smuggling, currently taking place in Brussels. ‘We have believed in these choices from the outset,’ explained the Prime Minister, ‘because we are convinced that they will ensure faster and more reliable procedures, as well as being an effective deterrent for those who have made human trafficking a hateful business.’ For Meloni, ‘the decision to initiate a reflection on the capacity of international conventions to address the challenge of modern irregular migration and security has gradually gained consensus and is now taking shape in an initial political debate at the Committee of Ministers in Strasbourg, formalised in a political declaration promoted by Italy and Denmark and signed by 27 nations, or more than half of the Council of Europe.’