The PP says Sánchez is not asking the EU for help on immigration because his attacks on Greece and Italy have left him without support

“Who will help you if you attack Mitsotakis and Meloni?“, sources from the European People’s Party (EPP) tell EL ESPAÑOL, who consider that the possibilities offered by other EU states that offer to welcome migrants from Spain “tend towards zero” right away.

After Alberto Nuñez Feijóo met in Athens with the Greek Prime Minister, Kyriákos Mitsotakis, the Minister of Science, Diane Morantcriticized the leader of the PP last September for taking as a reference the “violent and inhumane immigration policy” from the Greek government.

Diana Morant’s statements were particularly inappropriate, precisely during the week when the distribution of portfolios within the new European Commission was being decided: amid enormous tensions, the EPP finally agreed to place Therese Ribera as vice president of competition.

The attacks by the PSOE and Pedro Sánchez’s ministers against Italian Prime Minister Georgia Meloni were even harsher.

Last May, the PSOE launched a message on social networks, entitled “These are the fascists with whom Feijóo wants to make a deal in Europe“, in which he criticized the approach of the leader of the PP towards Georgia Meloni.

The PSOE video, illustrated with images of fascist crowds raising their arms, explains that Meloni’s government “cut pensions, dismantled public health, banned homosexual couples from registering their children and allowed pressure on women who wanted to have an abortion.

The Minister of the Presidency, Félix Bolaños, also criticized Feijóo’s approach towards Meloni: “Any vote for the PP and Vox could mean that there are leaders in the European Commission who are xenophobic, sexist, climate change deniersextremists of all conditions…” Bolaños said of the Italian prime minister.

EPP sources now warn that PSOE and government attacks on other European partners do not help the EU get involved in resolving the serious migration crisis in the Canary Islands, where thousands of ores remain piled up due to the migration crisis.

As reported by EL ESPAÑOL, the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, sent a letter last week in which she offered her willingness to mediate for “help Spain activate the relocation of unaccompanied minors and to facilitate dialogue with the Member States which are committed in this direction.

However, Minister Ángel Víctor Torres rejected this possibility. “It makes no sense to require France, Belgium or Germany to welcome minors who do not wish to do so in their autonomous communities,” the head of Territorial Policy declared on Friday. , in an interview with TVE.

“It is not understandable,” he added, “that there are communities that say: ‘I don’t want them on my territory, but I want them to go to other countries of the European Union. It is a gesture that has no logic or coherence and is very hypocritical.“.

Sources from the Canary Islands government have expressed their indignation at the words of Minister Ángel Víctor Torres: “It’s incredible, it’s a shame“, underline the aforementioned sources consulted by EL ESPAÑOL, “they do not want the children to leave the Canary Islands, They want to find someone guilty and nothing more. Or do the autonomous communities of the PP welcome them or nothing?

Since 2021, the European Union has had a voluntary mechanism for redistribute asylum-seeking immigrants. But this pact presents two additional difficulties.

First, only 18 of the 27 Member States have shown themselves willing to welcome these immigrants. Furthermore, the specific problem faced by the Canary Islands, Ceuta and Melilla concerns unaccompanied immigrant minors, an option that is not considered in the voluntary mechanism.

The relocation of undocumented immigrants between different Member States was precisely one of the main obstacles of Immigration pact which was ratified by the European Parliament last April.