SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, December 19. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The President of the Government of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo, highlighted this Tuesday the “remarkable sensitivity” that he has encountered in the European Union (EU) with the migratory crisis of the islands following the visit of the Commissioner for the Interior, Ylva Johansson.
In response to a question from the Nationalist Group in the control session of the Plenary of Parliament, he valued their “predisposition” to move “so quickly” to the archipelago when they are “breaking records” in arrivals, with more than 37,000 migrants this year.
Clavijo has also appreciated the “effort” of the Ministry of the Interior to organize a visit with three other ministers – apart from Marlaska, there were those of Territorial Policy and Migration, Ángel Víctor Torres and Elma Saiz, respectively – although the agenda that was not closed was not closed. They would have “liked” it because they missed a visit to El Hierro and some camps.
He also said that the commissioner is “optimistic” with the approval of the migration and asylum pact and has indicated that the EU can “provide more resources” if the Member State requests it.
Thus, he highlighted that Johansson “was quite alarmed” with the situation of the minors but made it clear that the EU “does not have” room for maneuver, only the central government, hence she has demanded more funds given that although a subsidy was signed of 50 million, “it is not even half” of what the autonomous community spends.
Clavijo has also once again claimed that a legislative modification is needed so that the care of minors is not left “at the mercy of the solidarity” of the autonomous communities. “They are putting in the wickers,” he commented.
David Toledo, president of the Nationalist Group, has valued the visit of the commissioner, who has recognized that the ‘Atlantic route’ “must be within” the European asylum pact, and of three ministers, but has insisted that “it will be easier “have an interlocutor if there is a single command.
He has agreed with the president that more financial resources are needed, given that annual spending on minors is around 110 million, and that referrals must be made on a mandatory basis, while warning that if the member states do not seal the asylum and migration pact, “will be in vain.”
