The President of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo, has communicated that this Wednesday he will hold a videoconference with the European Commissioner for Home Affairs, Magnus Brunner, in order to present him with the current migration situation in the archipelago and to call for a more direct involvement by the European Union, as well as the deployment of the Frontex agency in the main African countries of origin.
Clavijo explained this Tuesday, at a press conference after the meeting of the Interministerial Commission on Immigration held in Madrid, that this telematic contact is part of the arrangements opened last week on the island of Guadeloupe with the Vice President of the European Commission, Raffaele Fitto, during the Conference of Presidents of the Outermost Regions (RUP).
"We have given priority to the videoconference route in order to be able to do it as quickly as possible and to promote the activation of Frontex and the reinforcement of cooperation programs at origin," the Canarian president stressed, who insists on the need to speed up Community decisions.
At the same time, the head of the regional executive has reiterated his demand that the Canary Islands have an active and stable presence in the Community emergency response mechanisms, so that the archipelago has budget allocations and permanent resources established by the European Union to structurally address the peaks in assistance at the European southern border.