The Diplomat
The State Secretary for the European Union, Juan González-Barba, admitted yesterday that the Canary Islands are experiencing a “limit situation” with the continuous arrival of migrants and hopes that with the collaboration of the State and the EU it will last “as little time as possible”.
In statements to journalists after visiting the Parliament of the Canary Islands, he commented that the management of migration is one of the “great priorities” of the central government but did not hide that on the archipelago there is a “perfect storm” that generated an “unprecedented crisis”, reports Europa Press.
In that sense, he pointed out that the good weather conditions are pushing the trips in patera and cayuco from West Africa, also favored because the pandemic has affected the economies of the issuing countries “that makes young people get on a patera”.
