Italy plans to process immigrants in Albania

The European Union’s Supreme Court’s decision has another shock of Italy’s efforts to create a fast track system in Albania to process shelter applications on the offshore of Italy.

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) said that the Italian government currently defines whether the country is “safe” by violating the EU law for whom the application has been rejected.

The concept of “Safe Country” is the concept of the agreement to send the immigrants directly to the sea for the acceleration process with Albania in 223.

Anyone in the “safe country” rejected was to be expelled within a week.

But the ECJ has decided that if the entire population is safe, only a country can be included in the government list, that is, Italy will have to improve its process.

It currently recognizes Egypt and Bangladesh, for example, as safe, acknowledging that certain groups need protection.

The decision has led to a resentful reaction from the government in Rome, saying that the European court is reducing its role and the decision will weaken the ability to “protect national borders” of the countries.

The European court has also said that the government should make any evidence and sources public to reach the conclusion of safe countries, so that shelter seekers can challenge the decision in their case.

“Today, the court has made it clear that a country cannot be appointed as a effective, generalized protection, for everyone and everywhere and unless it is independently verified and not challenged,” Actionad Italy’s Catia Scanwini explained.

“The so -called Albania model collapses in its legal core,” she argued.

The fate of the Albania project of Italy is closely viewed by other governments in the UK who is eager to handle the coastal shelter applications as they are trying to reduce the number of irregular immigrants coming to their country.

As the focus of the strict point of view of the Meloni of immigration, the Albania Agreement has hit legal obstacles from the very beginning. A handful of migrants sent there returned to Italy after the intervention of all the lawyers.

Most of the time in the budget, the centers created have not yet been used by purpose.

In our decision, the European court does not in principle objection to the fastest-track process for migrants in safe countries, but it was clear that the implementation of that policy should change.

“This is basic:” the origin of the original country “cannot be used to change the Albania,” Aminti International Migration Researcher Adriana Tidona told the BBC, without the Italian law changed in accordance with the EU law.

“This makes it significantly stopped by Italy’s plans in Albania.”

Amnesty, just like others, has considered albania more fundamentally violating human rights. “It is not with the original safe countries, but it is based on the system of automatic arrest,” said Adriana Tidona. “That’s illegal.”

It is not clear what the new EU migrate on today’s decision can have on the contract that implements next year and presents a general list of safe countries for returns – with Egypt and Bangladesh.

But this decision has made it clear that the definition of safe countries is not finally with politicians.

“The court says that these are judges who have the right to evaluate safe countries,” Daniel Gallo explains the Professor of Rome’s Louis University’s EU law. “Whatever the government says, every judiciary in Italy now has the duty to set aside the Italian laws.”