Madrid (EFE)
The meeting will be held between today and tomorrow under the slogan “A secure Europe” and this Thursday it is the turn of the interior ministers of the member countries, who will share impressions in a session chaired by the head of this department in Spain, Fernando Grande-Marlaska.
The immigration pact is one of the priority issues of this informal meeting but it will not be closed in it, but will serve to advance the final signature.
One of the objectives of the presidency of the Council of the European Union that Spain holds this semester is that throughout this legislature they can “close each and every one of the elements that make up the pact”, according to sources from the Interior.
Other issues that will be on the table during this first meeting are EU-Latin America cooperation in the fight against organized crime, police access to data to provide greater security to the digital environment and the security challenges posed by the war in Ukraine.
On Friday, the meeting of EU Justice Ministers will take place, which will be chaired by the head of this ministry in Spain, Pilar Llop, and in which issues such as possible improvements in access to Justice for people with disabilities will be discussed.
Marlaska hopes to close the EU position for the Migration Crisis Regulation
The Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, has expressed this Thursday his confidence that this month it will be possible to close the position of the Council of Ministers of the area on the EU Regulation in situations of migratory crises to regulate the solidarity response of member countries in these exceptional circumstances.
Marlaska chairs today in Logroño the informal meeting of EU Interior Ministers, with the assistance of the majority of their counterparts -some such as those of Italy and France have delegated their number two- and the Interior Commissioner Ilva Johansson.
Upon his arrival at the Riojaforum Palacio de Congresos, Marlaska assessed the importance of this meeting, which is being held within the framework of the Spanish biannual Presidency of the EU, and its results so that they can be approved in the current European legislature, which will end in less than a year.
Spain is promoting a new European Migration and Asylum Pact, which progress was made on June 8 in Luxembourg at the meeting of the Interior Ministers with a rapprochement of positions on the asylum and migration management regulation and on the regulation of asylum procedures.
For the Logroño meeting, the debate on what is known as the Crisis Regulation has remained, the most thorny in that it must establish solidarity mechanisms in exceptional situations, such as the massive influx of immigrants.