Deputy Premier and Transport and
Infrastructure Minister Matteo Salvini said Tuesday that Italy's
northeastern neighbour Slovenia should resume the readmission of
migrants found to have crossed the border illegally or the
country would be obliged to reinstall border checkpoints.
"We need to reason with Slovenia so that it does what it has to
do and what it did in the past," said Salvini of the
readmissions procedure provided for under a bilateral agreement
dating to the mid 1990s and which a Rome court ruled in January
2021 to be illegitimate.
"Otherwise we will be forced to reinstall border checkpoints,
which is not my or our priority, but it is not possible to be
left alone, in Trieste, in Lampedusa, in Ventimiglia, in Cutro.
Everyone has to play their part," continued the minister and
leader of the right-wing League.
Italy's northeast border with Slovenia is the main crossing
point into the country for migrants and refugees transiting
along the Balkan Route from Turkey to northern Europe.
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