The leader of the Popular Party (PP), Alberto Núñez Feijóo, met on Thursday with the Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, and her Minister of Foreign Affairs, Antonio Tajani, to Get to know your immigration policy closely. At a later press conference, the popular reiterated that the Italian measures have “had good results”However, it was not specified whether any of them would apply in Spain.
He was even asked about some specific measures, such as detention centers, on which the co-founder of the Brothers of Italy agreed. build in AlbaniaFeijóo avoided answering. In exchange, he justified his visit to Meloni this Thursday and to the Greek Kyriákos Mitsotákis at the beginning of the week, responding to the fact that Spain, Greece and Italy are “arrival countries”. [de migrantes irregulares] of Southern Europe”, which, according to him, must have “a migration policy against irregular immigration”: “Without labels or ideological excuses”condemned
In this sense, he recalled the visit to Rome of the British Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, last week. to “solve these problems”. A question that he justifies by stating that “the Italian immigration policy interests every responsible politician in Europe”, while assuring that “it is not an ideological question”. It was then that the reproaches were addressed to the Spanish government.
“The main difference is not between the parties, but between the politicians who They fulfill their obligations and are responsible and irresponsible politicians who always blame others for what happens in their country,” Feijóo said in a veiled manner, clearly referring to Pedro Sánchez.
In fact, at the beginning of his speech, he recalled that in “April 2023” the socialist had gone to Rome to meet Meloni where he had assured that “they had aligned interests on immigration”“What has happened since then?” he asked himself, answering: “Italy has worked and achieved good results to end human trafficking and Spain has not worked and is today the country with the greatest irregular migratory pressure in the EU.”
The press conference was coming to an end and Feijóo did not finish specifying whether he would apply any of the Meloni measures in Spain. He explained that for him the ideal would be “an immigration policy based on the combination of firmness, legality, humanity and unity countries of Europe”.
