An Italian court has dealt a major blow to Giorgia Meloni’s £557 million plan to send migrants to Albania by ruling that they cannot remain there and must all be brought back to Italy because Egypt and Bangladesh are “not safe countries”. The Telegraph has more.
The first group of 16 Egyptian and Bangladeshi men arrived at the facilities in northern Albania on Wednesday at the start of what had been hailed as an innovative new way of dealing with Europe’s illegal migration crisis. The model was being closely watched by other European countries, including Britain.
The 16 men were rescued in the central Mediterranean this month but instead of being shipped to Italian shores, as has happened with tens of thousands of migrants and refugees, they were transported to the Adriatic coast of Albania in an Italian navy ship.
A bilateral accord drawn up by Rome and Tirana last year envisages migrants being taken to the port of Shengjin in northern Albania and then transported by bus to a brand new facility that was built on a former Albanian air force base dating back to the Cold War, next to the village of Gjader, about 15 miles inland.
There they are meant to have their asylum requests assessed. Under the plan, they would be either deemed genuine refugees fleeing war or persecution, in which case they will be sent to Italy, or economic migrants, in which case they should be sent back to their home countries.
The conservative coalition run by Ms. Meloni had hoped that the system could handle as many as 36,000 migrants and refugees a year.
But a ruling on Friday by a court in Rome has now thrown the entire five-year scheme, estimated to cost €670 million (£557 million), into doubt.
The court ruled that the migrants cannot be sent back to Bangladesh and Egypt because they are not safe countries.
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19/11? Who will the dictator be then? Ask a bookmaker.
Could you elucidate please?
New PM will be in post by then…
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“Protect children from harmful internet content without overregulating the free press” – The Telegraph in a leading article says the Online Safety Bill needs to be amended to restore its original worthy purpose.
Well, isn’t that really the job of parents?
Anyway, worthy or not, that’s the ostensible purpose, not necessarily the true one.
Do people even identify as parents these days? I thought that role was being taken by teachers and other professions.
As there’s no certain way to determine who is or isn’t legally a minor online, protecting children from harmful internet content requires treating every users as child by default: Whatever the government designates as harmful to children will be have to be banned for everyone for the general case.
Meanwhile, in proper news..
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-62149521
Sheep people quite happy to gobble up this kind of shite whilst the world is on the brink of catastrophic numbers of vaccine deaths and disintegration of services and the economy.
Nothing to see in that respect though folks, here’s a story about someone that had Star Wars figures on her wedding cake and likes to be referred to as zie/zir.
MSM, go **** yourselves.
Seconded.
Seconded.
If you didn’t catch it on GB News last night….Mark Steyn …Victims of the Vax.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/0itukLiCaLzr/
https://www.politicshome.com/news/article/governments-flagship-online-safety-bill-has-been-dropped-from-commons-business
The government’s flagship Online Safety Bill is set to be dropped from Commons business next week with a view for it to return to the Commons “in the autumn”.
PoliticsHome understands that the Bill was removed from the government’s agenda to make space for a motion of no confidence in the governmen due to be put to the House on Monday.
What a shame, need to keep up the pressure to bin it completely. though if not brought in, the next WEF stooge will be removed until one pushes it through for the WEF
Everyone’s getting it so they need to waste money on free tests to confirm that everyone’s getting it. Genius.
It was generally accepted prior to 2019 that mass testing was useless once a virus becomes widespread because you can’t detect it fast enough, i.e. once you detect one person it’s already spread to multiple other people.
And once it’s below a certain level, mass testing means that most of your tests will be pointless.
But let’s do it anyway for a laugh.
And some are making a profit, selling useless junk.
“Is the fifth Covid wave already peaking? Virus NHS admissions and cases slow despite calls for masks and social distancing to return – as deaths creep up by just six per day.”
How on earth did I miss the first four?