Meloni assures that immigration detention centers in Albania ‘will work’

MADRID, December 14 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The Italian Prime Minister, Georgia Meloni, again criticized this Sunday “politicized judicial decisions” and assured that her plan to use detention centers for migrants outside the EU “will work” despite the “delay” due to the convictions.

“Yesterday they told us that the only way to move forward was to open ports. Today the EU’s speech is border protection, strengthening repatriations, the fight against criminal networks and agreements with countries of origin and transit, regulation of NGOs, hotspots in territories outside the EU according to the model of the Italy-Albania protocol and now there are even common lists of safe third countries to protect our procedures from court decisions politicized,” said Meloni of Atreju’s party, which is organizing his party, the Brothers of Italy, this year in Rome.

For Meloni, it was “ideological rules” that “prevented transfers to Albania”, but now Europe approves a list of countries of origin of these immigrants. “It’s as we have always said: the Albanian centers will work!”, however “a year and a half late” due to judicial reluctance.

He also discussed the clash of recent days between the United States and the EU, with President Donald Trump’s criticism of European countries. “Trump insisted that the United States wanted to disengage and that Europeans had to organize to defend themselves: hello Europe,” he declared.

“For eighty years we have outsourced our security to the United States, pretending it was free, but we had to pay a price and that price is called conditioning. Freedom has a price,” Meloni said in his speech.

It is for this reason that he defended the increase in Europe’s defense capacity “equal in strength and respect to that of America” ​​in order to be able to “speak with all the powers of the world as befits a glorious civilization like that of Europe”. This “also means strengthening dialogue with the United States, but in a dialogue between equals and not in conditions of subalternity,” he said from the gardens of Castel Sant’Angelo in Rome. For Meloni, “Europe is not in decline”, but “it is a living civilization which still has a mission.

Meloni also “proudly” defended the performance of his government internally and the “unity” of the parties that support it. “They speak badly of Atreju and it is the best edition in history. They speak badly of the government and the government is rising in the polls,” he underlined before attacking the opposition left.

Indeed, Meloni’s allies and deputy prime ministers were also present at the Rome meeting: Antonio Tajani (Forza Italia) and Matteo Salvini (League), as well as Maurizio Lupi (We Moderate).