SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, September 21 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The president of the Parliament of the Canary Islands, Astrid Pérez, rejected this Thursday that the archipelago becomes a “permanent retention center” for migrants and has requested a policy of “agile and non-discriminatory” transfers to Spain and Europe, opening the door , even, that they could be a demographic solution to the “emptied territories.”
At the closing of the ‘Conecta Conference. Canary Islands-Europe’, organized by the Regional Chamber this week, has agreed with the President of the Government of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo, in demanding a “single command” in migration management to “speed up” decision-making in the ministries involved.
Pérez has defended the Canary Islands as a “humanitarian platform” for the integration of migrants and the Parliament’s “commitment” to the defense of human rights “regardless of skin color, place of origin or socioeconomic position.”
The president toured the participation of more than 50 speakers during about 14 hours of debate on migration and cohesion policy, highlighting, for example, the need to define a European rescue and rescue mechanism, proposed by the socialist MEP Juan Fernando López Aguilar. , the approval of a “fair and humane” asylum and migration pact or the need for solidarity between States for the migratory burden to be “mandatory.”
Regarding cohesion policies, he said that “it is necessary to consolidate” the status of the Canary Islands as an OR beyond 2027 and defend the regions “in a serious and rigorous manner” in the next financial framework.
He has said that it is now time to work “commonly” with the Canary and central governments and apply the funds “flexibly” to the needs of the islands, and making it clear that “the voice of the Canary Islands must be heard loud and clear in Europe “.
For this reason, he pointed out that the Chamber will draw up a set of conclusions from the conference that will be sent to the European Committee of the Regions to set the “new priorities” in the Canary Islands, a way also to “open” the Parliament to society and that it gains “recognition” as a “leadership” forum in the debate and reflection on the major issues that affect the archipelago.
