On the eve of Pedro Sanchez appear in Congress, a month after the opposition requested it, to explain the migration crisis in the Canary Islands, the debate was brought forward to the European Parliament. THE “humanitarian emergency in the Canary Islands must be one of the pillars of the debate at next week’s European Council,” he said. Dolors Montserrat this Tuesday in Strasbourg, “because either the Union takes control of its borders, or the border crisis will take control of Europe“.
The MEP and vice-president of the EPP Group in the European Parliament called in plenary for the involvement of the Twenty-Seven and, even, for the rest of the heads of state and government make Pedro Sánchez understand that his “incompetent management” and his “laziness” They open the doors to irregular immigration to the entire European continent.
In a debate before the plenary session of the European Parliament preceding the Council on October 17-18, Montserrat stressed the importance of addressing the migration crisis and warned: “If we think that this crisis will be solved with hollow rhetoric“, like the one attributed to the head of the Spanish executive, “I announce to you that the problems of the south today will be the problems of the north tomorrow.”
Dolors Montserrat denounces the migration crisis in the European Parliament.
Montserrat insisted that the European Union should not allow Sánchez to open the doors to irregular immigration from across the continent, as he did during his African mini-tour. During his first stopover, in Mauritania, the Spanish president offered 250,000 jobs per year to migrants from the continent. “Irregular immigration It is the human and political drama that most urgently concerns us. as Europeans,” Montserrat warned.
“Sánchez is the calling effect”
“This is not a new problem, but the numbers in countries like Spain are getting worse every year due to inaction, incompetence and the lack of leadership of politicians like Pedro Sánchez“, continued the former minister. The head of the PP delegation in the European Parliament accused the Spanish president of generating the appeal effect with his incompetence: “The real appeal effect is irresponsibility. The real appeal effect is called Pedro Sánchez“.
In this sense, Montserrat mentioned the more than 42,000 irregular arrivals of adults, and especially minors, to the Spanish coast during the first nine months of the year.
In the Canary Islands, in fact, the arrivals of irregulars have more than duplicate compared to September 2023, and the worst months of the year remain, those of calm. The islands already have at least 6,000 “overcrowded” unaccompanied minors in reception centers.
While waiting for Sánchez’s appearance this Wednesday in Congress, the leader of the PP explained the “limit situation” in which the southern border of Europe is located, mainly the Canary Islands, Ceuta and Melilla, given that Italy and Greece manage to control their roads and reduce irregular arrivals.
“It is the apathy of a president like Sánchez, who thinks that the mafias are stopped by promising roles in Europe to 250,000 people from Mauritania, Gambia and Senegal“, he explained. “And what’s more, by refusing to ask for more help from the EU”, despite offers from Frontex and the President of the Commission herself, Ursula von der Leyen“to avoid so many deaths in the ocean and provide a definitive solution to the unbearable situation of unaccompanied minors.”
As the PP spokesperson in the European Parliament explains, the Migration Pact is clear: “Our borders are weakreturns ineffectivethe responsibility of the Member States regarding this problem is unequal and the legal mechanisms for entry into Europe, insufficient“.
Montserrat also assured that “the EPP will continue to demand more resources and protection for our forces and security bodies”, more deployment of Frontex and more coordination between countries. Because that’s how we deal with crises. With fidelity.”
