Posted on 01/26/2025 2:38:05 PM PST by george76
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is doubling down in the new year, emboldened by the right-wing expansion in the world with the historic election of Donald J. Trump in the US, and several developments in Europe – in Romania, Austria, Germany, the Netherlands, the UK… and many other nations.
The ’most powerful person in Europe’ Meloni is riding this wave, reigniting her much-praised and much-maligned plan to send ‘asylum seekers’ (a.k.a. illegal migrants) to Albania for processing and posterior deportation.
The right-wing government in Italy is bucking against the pressure from their own Globalist unelected Judicial system.
Reuters reported:
“Italy’s navy on Sunday was taking 49 migrants it picked up in international waters to detention facilities in Albania, the interior ministry said, resuming a plan to curb sea arrivals mired in legal controversy.”
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Meloni directed the building of two ‘reception centers’ – detractors will call it migrant camps – in Albania.
That was the first deal diverting migrants to a non-EU country.
The centers have been empty since November, after judicial decisions stopped the program.
“The ministry said a patrol vessel was heading to Albania with 49 migrants onboard while further 53 who were also picked up, and who presented their passports to avoid immediate relocation, were in Italy awaiting the verification of their status.”
The government is enforcing its policy even after judges in Rome questioned its validity.
The controversy surrounding the plan revolves around a ruling by the European Court of Justice last year.
“The Court said no nation of origin could be considered safe if even just a part of it was dangerous, undermining Rome’s idea of deporting to Albania migrants from a selected list of “safe” countries with a view to swiftly repatriate them.”
But the European court will review Italy’s plan in the coming weeks, and issue a clarification of whether it is in compliance with EU law.
In the meantime, Meloni is flexing her geopolitical muscles and vising Saudi Arabia where she was very well treated, the Crown Prince shook her hand and showed just how much she is valued in the Kingdom.
She will be signing strategic partnership agreements with the Kingdom, in her continuing effort to reach out outside the EU sphere for solutions for her country and its economy.
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Saudi Crown Prince Hosts Italian Prime Minister in AlUla
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman welcomed Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni at the winter retreat in AlUla, highlighting a meeting of leaders aimed at strengthening ties between Saudi Arabia and Italy.
Most excellent.
Make Italy Italian Again.
“The right-wing government in Italy is bucking against the pressure from their own Globalist unelected Judicial system”.
Those bastards need to be “Mussolinied”.
Albania’s biggest export... Albanian’s.
Making it a processing center for immigrants is an awesome idea. Maybe it will encourage Albanian’s to stay at home and work as immigration workers... Instead of immigration skirters.
Non-Italians have to leave Italy. The neoCON-beloved era of globalism and open borders is over!
“.. the European Court of Justice ...”
GFY
We’ve got a bunch of “Albanians” in Jacksonville, FL of all places. They’ve been here many years. I suspect many are from Kosovo but have never verified that.
Albania is about half sunni muslim, 16% Catholic/orthodox, less than 1/2% protestant. But the government is nonreligious. I assume most of the illegals are muslim. Sending them there sounds like a plan.
Well said.
Albania is a largely secular society. The Communist dictator, Envar Hoxha, ruled over Albania for 40 years, during which time he outlawed religion and persecuted it. Most Albanians today are aligned religiously by heritage, not by personal practice. There is a small but growing non-Catholic, non-Orthodox, Christian presence in Albania as well.
Side note: Albania is one of the most pro-American countries on Earth.
Everyone is starting to get on the re-migration/reverse immigration bandwagon.
Trump. Ripple effect.
Meloni is riding this wave, reigniting her much-praised and much-maligned plan to send ‘asylum seekers’ (a.k.a. illegal migrants) to Albania for processing and posterior deportation.
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Meloni is deporting their posteriors?
If Meroni is dating I am free. Yowza..l
It’s contagious.
The cherry on the top.
“Everyone is starting to get on the re-migration/reverse immigration bandwagon.”
Unfortunately it is too late for many
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