Fifty million are a patch and a kick forward that does not improve the reception,” denounces the president of the Cabildo of Gran Canaria.
He considers that the State and the EU “are ignoring” the Islands and also accuses the PP of creating tension and blocking possible solutions
The president of the Cabildo, Antonio Morales, has accused the Government of Spain and the European Union of “disregarding” and “abandoning” the Canary Islands in the face of the crisis of unaccompanied migrant minors. Furthermore, he denounces that the 50 million euros announced to reinforce its attention in the Islands represent “a patch and a kick forward that does not improve reception.”
“Spain,” added the president of the island government, “is treating the Canary Islands like Morocco and Mauritania, countries that are given money to act as the last barrier in migratory transit. Once again, the archipelago is abandoned.”
“Those of us who thought that the meeting in La Palma between the President of the Government of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo, and the President of the Government of Spain, Pedro Sánchez, were not going to provide solutions to the reception of minors in the Canary Islands,” lamented Morales. .
All of this, he contextualized, “with the PP prioritizing its interests and preventing a solution to the distribution of the reception of minors. "They are installed in the tension and in preventing any positive result in the actions of the Government of Pedro Sánchez."
And meanwhile, he added, "with the Central Government cowering, fearful of losing a vote in the Cortes, refusing a Decree Law that would later force reception in other territories."
“The Spanish State ignores the Canary Islands. Fifty million for this autonomous community represents a consolidation of the current situation. And fifty million does not solve the lack of spaces for reception or the situation of minors who remain on the street when they turn 18,” he insisted.
“Fifty million,” stressed the president of the Gran Canaria Cabildo, “will not prevent the arrival of thousands of minors in the coming months who will have to be housed in improvised tents, without respect for human rights and international law.”
“And Europe,” he noted to complete the Council's vision of the current reality of the migration phenomenon in the Canary Islands, “disengaging, looking the other way, rubbing its hands, because the problem is being experienced by others. It is barely affecting them tangentially.”
Antonio Morales recalled that Gran Canaria is the island that has the worst data on the reception of minors in the Canary Islands, in addition to being the territory with the highest number of reception places for migrant minors without adult references.
