Italy wants to open two refugee camps on the territory of Albania. “Such a solution can really help us”, said the Prime Minister of Bavaria Markus Söder during the visit of the Prime Minister of Albania Edi Rama, who participated in a meeting of the parliamentary group of the Christian Social Party, CSU, which was held in Banz monastery. CSU is a right-wing party.

Söder said he finds this model more convincing than Britain’s intention to set up refugee camps in Rwanda. And the Prime Minister of Albania, Edi Rama, emphasized that everything Albania does is in accordance with the laws and values of the European Union.

More convincing model than the British one

CSU vice-president Manfred Weber, who heads the group of European People’s Parties in the EU Parliament, called on the Greens to drop their opposition to the European deal on migration policy. After years of torturous discussions, an agreement was reached in December to reform European asylum policy. However, in the European Parliament, the majority for its approval is not guaranteed, due to the attitude of the Greens. The failure of this agreement would be grist to the mill of right-wing populists, Weber said.

Meloni-Rama Agreement in the Constitutional Court

In autumn, Socialist Prime Minister Rama signed with the right-wing Prime Minister of Italy, Giorgia Meloni, a statement regarding the establishment of two refugee camps on Albanian soil. The aim is to curb migration through the Mediterranean Sea towards Italy and thus towards the EU. However, in both countries there are doubts as to whether this agreement is legally feasible.

In Albania, the Meloni-Rama agreement is being discussed in the Constitutional Court. The highest judicial institution in Albania is expected to have its say and decide on the fate of the much-debated Rama-Meloni agreement for housing at least three thousand refugees who are caught trying to enter the Italian coast illegally.

30 MPs of the opposition consider the agreement between the two countries as a violation of the Constitution of Albania and international law. Since the signing of the agreement in Rome last November, local and foreign experts expressed skepticism about an agreement that gives Italy the full right to manage the migrant crisis, using a foreign territory of a neighboring country. like Albania, which is not a member country of the European Union.