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Council of Europe:'The memorandum of understanding signed by Italy and Albania raises several human rights concerns and adds to a worrying European trend towards the outsourcing of asylum responsibilities' Update November 17, 2023: Through a note from the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe, the Strasbourg-based humanitarian body, the Council of Europe expressed serious doubts on the protocol signed between Italy and Albania for the management of migrants.“The MoU raises a number of important questions about the impact its implementation would have on the human rights of refugees, asylum seekers and migrants,” the statement reads."These concern, among others, timely disembarkation, the impact on search and rescue operations, the fairness of asylum procedures, the identification of vulnerable persons, the possibility of automatic detention without adequate judicial review, conditions of detention, access to legal aid and effective remedies". "The agreement - continue...

Between 13 and 14 September, almost 7 thousand migrants landed on Lampedusa in 48 hours, putting into crisis the political approach to the management of migratory flows of the Meloni Government which, immediately after taking office, issued a series of decrees, according to the executive to combat illegal immigration, but which in practice eliminate access to the rights of foreign citizens.The most sensible decision would have been not to dismantle the Sprar system and guarantee widespread reception throughout the national territory, to first and foremost avoid overcrowding at border hotspots and provide concrete assistance to migrants. Migrants, the solution is not to stop the departures but to reform a reception system that fuels illegal immigration They sound more and more out of reality statements of the Prime Minister who expressed her satisfaction with the teamwork of the entire Government to deal with "the immigration emergency and to find concrete solutions to the stro...

The Cutro decree, approved by the Council of Ministers last March 9, among other things, imposed a crackdown on special permits for immigrants.Since some comments, political and otherwise, seem a little confusing, a clarification may be useful, showing the direction in which the government majority is going. The errors, flaws and falsehoods of the government's version of the Cutro massacre From the Security decree to the Cutro decree The issuing of the residence permit for special protection is provided for in cases in which the foreign citizen seeking asylum is not recognized as having refugee status or subsidiary protection, but the conditions set out in the TUI apply:in particular, if the foreigner, if repatriated, could be subject to persecution or risk being subjected to torture, inhuman or degrading treatment, systematic and serious violations of human rights.Until the Cutro decree, the repatriation was also precluded for foreigners who in their country of origin coul...

The tragedy that occurred off the coast of Cutro, in Calabria, in which 74 people lost their lives during a 4-day crossing from Turkey, has revived in all its drama the issue of managing rescues at sea and migratory flows.The following day the Minister of the Interior Matteo Piantedosi he released statements that confirm the inability of the current Government to understand the entire migratory phenomenon:“Desperation can never justify dangerous journeys.”Piantedosi's unfortunate exit is not only harmful for its inhumanity, but because it shows the security approach of the current executive, completely neglecting the aspect of hospitality. An aspect of migratory phenomena that is too often overlooked - and which remains of interest mostly to those who deal with or work in the hospitality sector - is in fact thathe it happens after disembarking or arriving in Italy. While the number of illegal aliens continues to grow every year, also due to a regulatory system that makes th...

The recent ones resignation of the executive director of Frontex, Fabrice Leggeri, represent only the last piece of a mosaic of complaints, journalistic investigations And investigations on the work of the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, accused of very serious violations of human rights. The step back of the 54-year-old French politician, head of the agency since 2015, would have been due to contents of a report confidential of the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF).The investigation, reportedly from an internal Frontex source, “identifies precise responsibilities of the agency and Leggeri for some rejections that occurred in Greece” and indicates “a direct link between the meeting in which the disciplinary measures were to be decided and Leggeri's resignation”. The Director General of OLAF, Ville Itälä, commenting on the investigation with some MEPs, he would have defined Leggeri as "disloyal towards the EU” and responsible for a “poor staff management”. European sources prese...