The Italian Azil Sending Program in Albania, which was discussed, was again launched on Sunday, the Italian Ministry of the Interior said, a few months after the judges blocked the first transfers there.
The Italian Navy ship was transported by 49 people in the centers that Italy built in Albania, the Ministry said. The Ministry spokeswoman added that those who were transferred to the sea were overwhelmed before they arrived in Italy.
Prime Minister of Italy Giorgia Meloni set up the idea of holding new asylum seekers outside the country to evaluate as a leading policy of her administration, describing this as an innovative way of fighting illegal immigration and distracting migrants from risky trips of the ship by the Mediterranean.
Mrs. Meloni launched the program again after removing the case within the jurisdiction of the Rome judges who ruled against the initial broadcasts. That verdict has doubted the future of the program. These judges said that 12 migrants sent by Italy in Albania in October were not eligible for the program because the countries from which they came from, Bangladesh and Egypt, may not be sure.
Since then, Mrs. Meloni has also produced a new list of countries that he considers safe. The officials of the Ministry of the Interior did not give a list of countries from which migrants came, but said they were from countries that were considered safe.
The plan caused a condemnation of human rights groups and Italian opposition, which condemned him as cruel and excessively expensive. But some politicians across Europe, including those from the main parties, see this as a potential model for migration policy at a time when anti -immigrant feelings are increasingly widespread. The President of the EU Executive Branch Ursula von der Leyen called it “by an example of non -standard thinking, based on a righteous division of responsibility with third countries.”
The decision of the judges in Rome on the interruption of the transfer started Gallbladder between Mrs. Meloni and Italian judiciary. Asked Italian judges, including judges in Rome The European Court of Justice to clarify, among other things, who determines what a safe country is. This court is expected to listen to the case next month.
In Italy, the question of whether migrants can be kept in Albania now transferred to the Rome Court.
Although the outcome of an attempt to revive politics is still uncertain, Mrs. Meloni made it clear that she intended to push him in one way or another.
“Believe me, centers in Albania will function,” she said last month at the set of her party in Rome. “Even if I will have to spend every night on the case, from now to the end of this Italian government.”
Elisabetta Zaledo contributed to reporting.
