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Politiko 2025-06-26 18:50:44

"Rising Authoritarianism", The Guardian: Rama, the longest-serving

"A UK plan to send rejected asylum seekers to 'return centres' in third countries shows that post-Brexit Britain is 'in a very dark place'", Prime Minister Edi Rama has declared, according to 'The Guardian'. 

"In his first interview with international media since leading his Socialist party to a historic fourth term in office, Edi Rama said the idea that the United Kingdom wants to "look for places to deport migrants" would have been inconceivable a decade ago.

But this was in line with the change in public discourse in Britain since Brexit, in which the "utterly unacceptable, utterly ridiculous, utterly shameful" had become normal, he said.

Announced last month by Keir Starmer during a visit to the Balkan state, the "return hub" scheme would involve centres in a third country that process the claims of people who have been refused asylum and who have exhausted legal avenues in the UK.

"It's one of those things that 10 years ago simply wouldn't have been imaginable ... that Britain would be looking for places to deport migrants," Rama said from Tirana, the capital of Albania.

"The fact that today it is not merely imaginable, but is happening, is not because Keir Starmer or [Rishi] Sunak are doing something extraordinary; it is because the country is in a very dark place ," the article says.

The Guardian also focuses on criticism of the Albanian Prime Minister. The article notes that accusations against him of authoritarianism are growing. 

"But the 2.01-meter-tall socialist party leader, a basketball player in his youth, also has his critics. Accusations of corruption in Albanian society are widespread. So are accusations of growing authoritarianism - Rama will be the longest-serving leader since Enver Hoxha, the country's brutal former dictator - although the accusations are branded a farce by admirers and ordinary people in Brussels ," the article notes. 

 

 

 

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