Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is leading changes to EU law to make it easier for criminal foreigners.
Alan Bursett, executive director of the Council of Europe, rejected calls from EU leaders, making the European Treaty of Human Rights (ECHR) more flexible.
The Council of Europe (COE) was established in 1949 to promote democracy, protect human rights, and support the European rule of law. It also monitors the progress of member countries in compliance with human rights standards.
Its most famous convention is ECHR. The European Court of Human Rights oversees how it is being implemented.
Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania also signed the letter It calls for ECHR’s “new open conversations about interpretation.”
The letter stated that the scope is “so far away compared to the original intention behind the treaty, which shifts the balance between the interests that should be protected.”
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Berset dismissed the letter, saying, “The argument is healthy, but not the case of politicizing the courts.”
He said: “Institutions that protect fundamental rights cannot bend into a political cycle. If so, we risk eroding the very stability they have been built up. The courts must not be weaponized by them, either against the government or against the government.”
According to data from the European Border and Coast Guard Frontex, illegal immigrants are entering the EU primarily via crossing the Mediterranean Sea from North Africa and overland through Poland and the Balkans.
Illegal intersections are usually placed by organized criminal networks and smugglers.
Under the EU migration and asylum agreement, Member States are considering attacking agreements with non-EU states as they could set up processing centres in North Africa or later to handle sub-season claims with non-EU states outside the territory.
In April, Italy became the first EU state to successfully send illegal immigrants across the bloc’s borders after the first three attempts were blocked by domestic and European courts.
Italy bypassed the ban by the European Court of Justice by adding its own safe third country list and rebrand detention centre to its own safe third country list and rebrand detention centre.
On April 14th, Italy sent 40 illegal immigrants to the Italian Operations Centre in Albania.
