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The Italian government was banned several times by the courts from bringing immigrants to Shëngjin and Gjadra.
The Italian Ministry of the Interior has prepared a list of immigrants who will arrive in Gjadra. According to the Italian media "La Repubblica", among the immigrants there will be Albanian citizens who have been deported from Italy. It is reported that this time the immigrants who will land in Gjadra will not be returned.
These are people awaiting deportation, already held in other Italian repatriation centers, which, according to the latest announcement by the Ministry of Interior, have begun to reach full capacity.
The Department of Civil Liberties and Immigration of the Ministry of the Interior, headed by Prefect Rosanna Rabuano, has prepared the list of immigrants who will be transferred to Albania.
According to Italian media, the migrants who will arrive in Gjadra are: Tunisians, Egyptians, Moroccans and Albanians. Even irregular Albanian migrants could end up in Gjadra, waiting to be accepted by the government in Tirana. For them, repatriation would be easier and certainly less expensive: they would be the only ones who could be released on Albanian territory.
For all others, according to the rules established by the Meloni-Rama pact in the current protocol, they will have to return to Italy again before they can begin repatriation procedures.
"It is therefore essential that Italy strengthens existing agreements to avoid the boomerang effect of the new version of Operation Albania, in case the migrants brought there were to stay for months without being sent home," writes La Reppublica.
For this reason, Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi is about to leave for Egypt, one of the countries where dozens of migrants already expelled could be repatriated. Unlike the accelerated border procedures that apply to asylum seekers from safe countries, in Egypt it is not possible to repatriate migrants who have already been rejected and are on Italian territory. Piantedosi will then host the Interior Ministers of the Med 5 (Italy, Cyprus, Greece, Malta, Spain) in Naples.
The migrants who arrived in January 2025 are the third and largest group to arrive at the reception center in Shëngjin. In two previous cases, last October and November, the Italian court requested the return of migrants from the reception camps in Albania, thus dealing a severe blow to Meloni's plans to send asylum seekers abroad.
The Italian government was banned several times by the courts from bringing migrants to Shëngjin and Gjadra. The reason for the ban and return of migrants was the lists of countries of origin of asylum seekers, where the Italian government claimed that there should not be a unified list for all EU countries.
In 2023, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama reached an agreement to build these centers, with the aim of Italy managing the flow of migrants outside its territory, using Albania as a reception center. This agreement sparked widespread criticism from international human rights organizations, which see this project as an attempt to shift the migrant problem to weaker countries in legal and economic terms./ Adapted from "Pamphlet" by "La Reppublica".
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