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Italy Restarts Program Shipping Illegal Migrants to Albania for Processing and Repatriation – PM Meloni in Saudi Arabia to Sign Strategic Partnership Agreements With the Kingdom
Gateway Pundit, ^ | Jan. 26, 2025 | Paul Serran

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.


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KEYWORDS: albania; austria; deportation; europe; europeanunion; gatewaypundit; germany; giorgia; giorgiameloni; italy; meloni; mohammedbinsalman; netherlands; paulserran; romania; saudiarabia; unitedkingdom

1 posted on 01/26/2025 2:38:05 PM PST by george76
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To: george76

Most excellent.


2 posted on 01/26/2025 2:41:47 PM PST by OKSooner ("I'd be safe and warm, if I was in LA... " Mama Cass Elliott, 1966)
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To: george76
 
 
A spreading "Trump Effect" in motion, I'd say.
 
 

3 posted on 01/26/2025 2:45:21 PM PST by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: george76

Make Italy Italian Again.


4 posted on 01/26/2025 2:47:27 PM PST by EvilCapitalist (Pets are no substitute for children)
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To: george76

“The right-wing government in Italy is bucking against the pressure from their own Globalist unelected Judicial system”.

Those bastards need to be “Mussolinied”.


5 posted on 01/26/2025 2:56:21 PM PST by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possiWe neve hear of gambling paying off $billioble.)
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To: george76

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.


6 posted on 01/26/2025 2:58:51 PM PST by jerod (Nazis were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: george76

Non-Italians have to leave Italy. The neoCON-beloved era of globalism and open borders is over!


7 posted on 01/26/2025 3:14:07 PM PST by imabadboy99
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To: george76

“.. the European Court of Justice ...”

GFY


8 posted on 01/26/2025 3:17:01 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: jerod

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.


9 posted on 01/26/2025 3:20:45 PM PST by lodi90
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To: george76

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.


10 posted on 01/26/2025 3:23:10 PM PST by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: EvilCapitalist

Well said.


11 posted on 01/26/2025 3:44:31 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Flaming Conservative

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.


12 posted on 01/26/2025 3:46:20 PM PST by Engraved-on-His-hands
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Everyone is starting to get on the re-migration/reverse immigration bandwagon.


13 posted on 01/26/2025 4:18:09 PM PST by Tom Tetroxide (Psalm 146:3 "Do not trust in princes, in the Son of Man, who has no salvation.")
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If you are not in a country legally, go home.
14 posted on 01/26/2025 4:33:13 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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To: george76

Trump. Ripple effect.


15 posted on 01/26/2025 4:56:02 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: george76

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?


16 posted on 01/26/2025 5:03:47 PM PST by The_Media_never_lie ( @whoisourPresident)
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If Meroni is dating I am free. Yowza..l


17 posted on 01/26/2025 5:08:10 PM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: george76

It’s contagious.

The cherry on the top.


18 posted on 01/27/2025 1:09:58 AM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)
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To: Tom Tetroxide

“Everyone is starting to get on the re-migration/reverse immigration bandwagon.”

Unfortunately it is too late for many


19 posted on 01/27/2025 7:36:54 AM PST by CottonBall (Librela, the new jab for dogs and cats. Pfizer/Zoetis is making billions killing our furbabies.)
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