EU partners tone down criticism of Spain over Ceuta crisis and now show their "total solidarity"
Brussels admits that “there is no direct relationship” between the regularization and the influx at the border, although it notes that the measure “is not a good sign for the rest of the Union”
The strong criticism of Spain for the Ceuta crisis of the first days has subsided. The Spanish Interior Minister, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, has not had to listen to the reproaches that 22 EU Prime Ministers - all but five - launched last Saturday in a letter against Spanish migration policy. In the meeting with his counterparts, "there have been no real criticisms" of the regularization, admitted the Commissioner for Home Affairs, Magnus Brunner, who spoke of "total solidarity with Spain around the table".
The tone of the meeting has been "constructive", said the Spanish minister, and several diplomatic sources familiar with what happened in the almost four-hour meeting corroborate this.
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