Rama clarifies the agreement for immigrants/ "We received other offers, but Italy is Albania"

2024-06-02 21:00:00, Politikë CNA

Rama clarifies the agreement for immigrants/ "We received other offers, but

Prime Minister Edi Rama

Prime Minister Edi Rama clarified again the agreement with Italy for immigrants during the interview he conducted for the "Report" program of RAI3.

Regarding the accusations that housing immigrants is a violation of basic human rights, Rama said that this is not true and that there would be no debate if the agreement had taken place with another state.

"This is one way of looking at it, but there is another way of looking at it, because geography cannot be the curse of Italy, which has been left alone for too long. In dramatic moments in time, it has really been abandoned in its solitude, because if one sets foot in Italy, he sets foot in Europe. So it is not one that arrives there and Italy has to manage it by itself; it is someone who arrives in Europe and Europe has to manage it together. Moreover, there is an important provision of the European legislation, which is redistribution, and which, clearly, has not worked. To the detriment of Italy. Meanwhile, we are not a country that is part of the EU, we are part of the EU, that is, we are a European country, we are located on the other side of the sea from Italy and, quite simply, we have assumed a responsibility as Europeans, in the sense that , you need us to contribute and participate. If this had been done by Slovakia, Poland or anyone else who is in the European Union, nothing would have been said, but the fact that Albania is not in the European Union raises all this noise and, subsequently, this interpretation. I said subjective, factual", he said.

The head of the government "shot" the Italian opposition, as he declared that it would do the same if the solution was in its hands.

"It is not a topic of the politics of the day or electoral interests, it is a very big issue to become the object of political clashes. Because at the end of the day, when they come to the government, everyone thinks the same and wants to do almost the same thing. Whether the left or the right, in Italy and everywhere, they talk about controlling flows, they talk about illegal flows...

Do we become moral when we sit there and see others who have to manage it, and then when it comes to managing it ourselves we do the same? Here there is a need for a big common table of all, beyond the left and the right, to understand, on the one hand, that there is a demography that is punishing an entire Europe, let's say, especially the old Europe..." , declared Rama.

The Prime Minister emphasized that there were also offers from other countries, but he rejected them.

"We had other offers but we refused, because it doesn't make sense. Italy is Albania and Albania is Italy in the way we see things", underlined Rama./ CNA