The government denies having refused European Union aid on immigration. Days after the Popular Party accused the Executive of reducing the European Commission’s resources for the transfer of overcrowded migrant minors to the Canary Islands, government sources deny these claims and urge the Popular Party to return to the table immigration negotiations.
It’s only been a few days since People’s Party announced that he would not sit down again to negotiate with the government on immigration issues as he assures that the European Commission has reached out to Spain to try to alleviate the crisis of overcrowding of shelters for miners experienced in the Canary Islands, for example. , but the Spanish government rejected this aid.
It is for this reason that the People’s Party came forward a few days ago, assuring that it would not participate in further negotiations if the executive did not accept help from the European Commission. A reproach already confirmed by the Minister of Territorial Policy himself, Angel Victor Torreswho assured last Saturday that the government had rejected EU aid for the relocation of unaccompanied minors who are in reception centers in the Canary Islands. Despite this, Executive sources claimed today that “all kinds of resources have been requested from the European Commission on immigration”, contradicting Torres’ statements.
The Executive assures that the actors involved in resolving this crisis have extended to the European institutions the need for cooperation between Spain and the EU, and that the letter from Ursula Von Der Leyen in which, it seems, he criticizes the government for having refused aid, “can have another reading”, such as for example that what the Commission is trying to convey is that there must be “increased collaboration”, and that this PP story is “a surprising plot twist”.
These same sources nuance the “unacceptable” attitude of the PP knowing that at these negotiation tables, the Government and the main opposition party reached various consensuses, which is why “it seems strange” that at this stage, the popular parties “get up from the table”. “We no longer spoke with the PP,” they say of the government.
Tomorrow will take place the meeting that Pedro Sánchez will hold in Moncloa with the president of the archipelago, Fernando Clavijo, as part of the bilateral negotiations he is carrying out with all the regional presidents. Given the imminence of immigration on the agenda, the Government declared that during the meetings with the PP all types of consensus were obtained regarding the creation of a new system of reception of immigrants and he assured that the budget he would have assign the autonomous communitiesthe majority governed by the popular, because the creation of this new system “is negligible”.
These government sources insist on the need to reform article 35 of the Immigration Law to begin creating this new distribution system, but above all, they urge the PP to resume negotiations, “we have given the green light to the entire Popular Party and they get up from the table, it’s unjustified.
