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Analysis of 'The Times': Will Meloni win the battle with the courts over the refugee plan?
2024-11-13 22:35:38 / BOTA
The British daily "The Times" has paid attention to the obstacles to the implementation of the Rama-Meloni agreement for immigrants.
In the published article, it is stated that the agreement of the Italian Prime Minister for the processing and repatriation of immigrants in Albania has been stopped, echoing the battle of the United Kingdom for the Rwanda scheme.
Giorgia Meloni enjoyed her reputation as a leader who had a plan. As European governments and EU leadership struggled to respond to voter pressure to crack down on illegal migration, the Italian prime minister took action. Thanks to an agreement with Edi Rama, the prime minister of Albania, her government built a center north of Tirana to rapidly process and prepare the repatriation of up to 36,000 migrants a year who were caught at sea.
European leaders tried to find out if other Balkan countries might be available to open offshore centers. The plan won Meloni praise from right-wing leaders such as Hungary's Viktor Orbán, but also from Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, who endorsed the idea of "return positions outside the EU", even as humanitarian groups criticized the concept. as dangerous.
It was therefore ironic when Italy's plan to send migrants to Albania from 19 countries it considers "safe" ran afoul of a decision by the EU Court of Justice to narrow the definition of a "safe country". . Judges in Rome halted the transfer of migrants to Albania until the court in Luxembourg clarifies its definition of "country security," which could take months.
On Tuesday, Elon Musk waded into the debate with an attack on Italian judges, posting on X: "These judges need to go." The intervention sparked outrage among Italian opposition politicians, who accused the tech mogul of meddling in their politics as he looks set to take an active role in Donald Trump's administration. But whatever Musk believes, Meloni will be just as concerned with the reaction of Italian voters to her legal crackdown on immigrants.
If she is worried that her popularity will decline as her migration policy falters, she may be encouraged to wage an all-out war on Italy's judiciary by blaming them, as she argues that decisions on migration should be made by governments and not by judges. This may be the only way to steal the thunder from Matteo Salvini, her loud-mouthed deputy prime minister, who has been calling judges "communists" for days.
If a clash with the courts ensues, Italy could see a return to the days when Silvio Berlusconi, the former prime minister, regularly savaged judges investigating his business deals. But this time the battle may be even tougher.
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