Italy relaunches the line on the repatriation of irregular migrants in Europe and focuses on non-European return hubs

Italy is relaunching the line on the repatriation of irregular migrants in Europe and is aiming to create return hubs and repatriation centers outside the European space, taking the model developed with Albania as a reference. It is one of the four points brought by the Minister of the Interior Matteo Piantedosi at the Migration Summit underway in Munich.

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Piantedosi attended the summit at the invitation of his German counterpart Alexander Dobrindt, together with the Interior Ministers of 18 European countries and Commissioner Magnus Brunner. At the center of the intervention of the head of the Interior Ministry is European immigration policy, from border procedures to repatriations, up to the right to asylum and the management of flows in the Mediterranean.

The first point indicated by Piantedosi concerns the effort made by Italy for the first implementation of the Migration and Asylum Pact and the need, according to the minister, to make even more incisive tools available to member states. The aim is to make accelerated border procedures more effective and allow the more rapid expulsion of irregular migrants.

A second front concerns the right to asylum. Piantedosi called for initiatives to combat its abuse, arguing that it cannot be used instrumentally as a lever to enter Europe illegally.

The Italian proposal then returns to return hubs, the centers intended for repatriations to be created outside the European space. Piantedosi indicates them, together with the centers for repatriations outside Europe and on the model of what Italy has done with Albania, as tools capable of exercising a deterrent function with respect to illegal departures.