EU Urged to Create Fund Supporting Morocco’s Migration Control Efforts

Minister González Laya stressed the importance of relations with Morocco and the need for greater EU involvement in the migration issue. According to her, it is necessary for Morocco and other countries fighting immigration to have adequate access to European funds, and for the EU to support the efforts of countries like Spain that have a leading role to play in maintaining order at the borders.

The EU Foreign Ministers approved these recommendations at their meeting last Monday, said González Laya, adding that in the face of migration and demographic challenges, it is appropriate to cooperate with countries of origin, transit and destination of migratory flows to fight against illegal immigration and the mafias that profit from it.

Cooperation, she points out, is mainly aimed at strengthening the capacities of these countries in terms of reception and protection of migrants, refugees and asylum seekers, in order to meet the challenges of the fight against networks of illegal immigration and human trafficking.

With Morocco, Spain continues its bilateral relations, despite the non-holding of the bilateral summit since February, the Spanish minister also assured, indicating that several ministerial meetings are taking place according to a schedule agreed with her Moroccan counterpart. In this context, meetings have already taken place between the ministers of Industry, Commerce and Tourism and those of Transport. Those between the Ministers of Education are scheduled for April 28; between the Ministers of Ecological Transition, on April 29, of Agriculture and Fisheries, on May 5, of Culture in the near future.