Rome, Aug. 3 (LaPresse) – “A judge cannot be the one to decide whether a country is safe or not, whether it is a country to which an irregular migrant can be returned. The ruling of the Court of Justice undermines the dignity of public officials who are not magistrates. Why should a magistrate, who doesn't know the issue, be able to decide whether a country is safe or not, while diplomats, civil servants, consuls — who actually live in those countries — as well as officials from the Ministry of the Interior and from Palazzo Chigi who work on these matters, are not considered competent? Is it the magistrate who has never dealt with the issue, or the professionals who do it for a living, who can better assess whether country X is more or less safe, because there is an embassy or a consulate there?” This is what Deputy Prime Minister and Forza Italia leader Antonio Tajani said during his speech at the "States General of FI" currently taking place in Reggio Calabria. “So I’ll go home, we’ll put a magistrate in charge of the Foreign Ministry, the magistrate will do everything, and we’ll close all ministries because they decide everything. Then one magistrate says Egypt is safe, another says it’s not safe anymore, and a third says we need to go back to court. It creates a situation of great chaos. Magistrates should also study the principles of our democracy a bit more. There was a French gentleman, a baron, named Montesquieu — whom we studied in school from an early age — who said that modern democracy is based on the separation of powers. The legislative branch makes the laws, the executive governs, and the judiciary checks whether the laws have been applied or not,” he added.
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