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The protocol signed by Giorgia Meloni with Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama provides that only a small part of Albanian centers can be used as CPR, so to convert them the protocol with Albania and the law would have to be reviewed...
The Meloni government plans to repurpose empty migrant centers set up in Albania with the aim of putting them into operation, while this idea has sparked controversy in Italy.
The two centers in Shëngjin and Gjadra have been empty for months, while the Meloni Government has proposed that they be converted into CPR, or repatriation centers.
But for this to be achieved, the Rama-Meloni agreement, ratified by the parliaments of both countries, must be changed. At least according to the Italian opposition, since Albania has not yet taken a position on the proposed idea.
According to the Italian opposition, what is holding up the project to reconfigure the centers is the issue of additional costs and the regulatory framework.
"Current European legislation does not allow the relocation of a repatriation center to a third country," says Democratic Party Secretary Elly Schlein.
According to her, the protocol signed by Giorgia Meloni with Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama provides that only a small part of Albanian centers can be used as CPR, so to convert them, the protocol with Albania and the law would have to be reviewed.
"To say that this conversion would not have greater costs is ridiculous," she emphasizes.
For Schlein, the attempt to convert centers in Albania into CPR clearly shows that Meloni's Albanian model has failed.
"The centers will not work. Now they will come to tell us that they will still be used to send people who are already in Italy but have been hit by a repatriation order," said Schlein, who promises: "we will not stand by and watch as they violate human rights and throw more money at the government's failure."
Everything came about after the Government's Interior Minister Meloni warned that reception centers could be converted into repatriation prisons, housing those who have lost the right to stay in Italy but are roaming the streets of cities.
"It's not that they can be done, but as I have already specified, there is a CPR within the center in Albania. It is just a matter of activating this structure as quickly as possible," noted Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi, assuring that the reconversion would not require new investments.
The two facilities are currently empty, awaiting the European Court of Justice's decision, which will probably not arrive before June.
In order not to leave the Albanian centers unused, the government plans to change their use. By becoming CPRs, in essence, the facilities would no longer house migrants intercepted in international waters, who would have to undergo accelerated border procedures, but irregular migrants already present on Italian territory, who would be taken there while waiting to be repatriated.
"The centers could play a role in strengthening the system for the repatriation of irregular migrants who do not have the right to stay in Italy," said Piantedosi, adding "in this way we can return home people who risk making our cities less safe." /Pamphlet/
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