The first 16 migrants from Egypt and Bangladesh are expected to arrive on Wednesday at the Gjadër camp in Shengjin.
Italian Media Ansa.it writes that although they were headed to Italy, these refugees will be the first to start their lives in the camp for which Prime Minister Rama and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni have signed one of the most commented agreements between the two places.
The whole procedure, starting from the application for asylum, must be completed within 4 weeks: those who are eligible will be transferred to Italy, those who are not will be repatriated after the stay in the CPR. The time for appeals – provided for video links to the Rome court to hear them – has been halved to 7 days with the newly approved influx decree. The first 16 migrants are traveling on the Navy’s offshore patrol vessel – 80 meters long, with a crew of around seventy soldiers – destined to cross between the maritime area south of Lampedusa and Shengjin.
The Italian opposition seems to have raised its concerns regarding this issue.
“A billion of public money wasted in disregard of rights”. After the opening of the centers last week (5 months later than the initial forecast), the government’s gamble begins, as a result of the agreement signed by the prime ministers of the two countries, Giorgia Meloni and Edi Rama: to manage the asylum requests of migrants, who are more likely to be repatriated, in order to have a deterrent effect on travel”, this is the position of the opposition in Italy.
Also, the head of the Albanian government just a day ago gave an interview to La Repubblica regarding this issue. He said that the construction and management of the migrant centers in both the erected structures have nothing to do with the Albanian government. Also, he says that no migrant will be able to leave these structures.
“Commitment to social cohesion, hospitality, progress, integration, obtaining citizenship is a permanent activity”. So said the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, speaking from Milan.
“Today, migrants are different, as illustrated by President Duilio. “New views, other voices”, you called them. They no longer come from southern Italy, but from further afield, from European countries like Ukraine, attacked by a senseless war. From the Balkans, burdened by unstable conditions, others are actors of a precious work that tries to realize the objectives of solidarity that the Constitutional Charter has established as the basis of our coexistence. So said the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, speaking in Milan at an activity of the “Migrant Orientation Center – Franco Verga Foundation”.
