Post by tomis42 on Feb 15, 2024 5:20:53 GMT
Edi Rama's reasoning for the emigrants' agreement with Rome - that Albanians have a historical "debt" to Italy - is based on a bad interpretation of history. 18:41 : 13/02/2024 in NEWS , BOLD BLOG , MAIN , POLITICAL Rama-Meloni, an agreement-spectacle to legitimize power That's Fabio Bego The protocols signed by Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni last November, according to which the government in Tirana will allow Italy to build camps for immigrants on Albanian territory, have generated various negative reactions. The issue contains some politically dangerous and morally low features that deserve attention. One is the reasoning given by Rama to justify the agreement.
According to him, the main Belarus Phone Number List reason for giving the national territory is a kind of "debt" that Albanians owe to Italy for the way it hosted them in the early 1990s. Archival documents show that Italy's "hospitality" was a short-lived policy that served them interests of the state contingent. Emigration to Italy begins in the 1980s After ending relations with China in the late 1970s, communist Albania opened up to Western European countries such as Italy. The countries were driven to cooperate for opposite reasons. For the Albanians, it was a matter of economic necessity.
For Italy it was a means to expand its influence in the Balkans. Archival data show that over 2,000 Italians traveled to Albania in 1983 as tourists, journalists, businessmen, professionals and diplomats. Italians and other Western Europeans were seen in Tirana, Durrës and other tourist spots. Then, as today, mobility regimes were asymmetric. It was easier for Italians to go to Albania than vice versa. The first Albanians who arrived in Italy in large numbers were from Kosovo. In April 1984, the right-wing newspaper Il Tempo reported that Italian authorities had granted asylum to many immigrants from Eastern Europe, most of whom, 444, came from Albania.
According to him, the main Belarus Phone Number List reason for giving the national territory is a kind of "debt" that Albanians owe to Italy for the way it hosted them in the early 1990s. Archival documents show that Italy's "hospitality" was a short-lived policy that served them interests of the state contingent. Emigration to Italy begins in the 1980s After ending relations with China in the late 1970s, communist Albania opened up to Western European countries such as Italy. The countries were driven to cooperate for opposite reasons. For the Albanians, it was a matter of economic necessity.
For Italy it was a means to expand its influence in the Balkans. Archival data show that over 2,000 Italians traveled to Albania in 1983 as tourists, journalists, businessmen, professionals and diplomats. Italians and other Western Europeans were seen in Tirana, Durrës and other tourist spots. Then, as today, mobility regimes were asymmetric. It was easier for Italians to go to Albania than vice versa. The first Albanians who arrived in Italy in large numbers were from Kosovo. In April 1984, the right-wing newspaper Il Tempo reported that Italian authorities had granted asylum to many immigrants from Eastern Europe, most of whom, 444, came from Albania.