The Basque Country and the Canary Islands insist on the application of solidarity and territorial co-responsibility for the distribution of minors.

The Basque Country and the Canary Islands have submitted their agreement insisting on the effective application of “solidarity and territorial co-responsibility” for the partition.balanced, coordinated and fair“among the autonomous communities of the State of unaccompanied migrant minors the ‘dramatic’ situation that is being experienced in this respect and that is already “unsustainable” in the case of the Canary Islands. The text contains the proposal for an economic report that guarantees and supports this extraordinary distribution. The Lehendakari, Imanol Pradales and the President of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo, sent the proposal for an agreement to the presidents of the autonomous communities and cities. extraordinary distribution of unaccompanied minorsThis makes it possible to guarantee care for children and young people “and thus relieve tension in the network of resources” in the Canary Islands.

Both the Canary Islands and the Basque Country defend the activation of an extraordinary mechanism that “allows the distribution of unaccompanied migrant children and guarantees their superior interests”, while at the same time would provide a solution to “the situation in the Canary Islands, Ceuta and Euskadi”.

The Canary and Basque governments defend in their proposal that it is the Spanish government that “has the responsibility to effectively promote the fair distribution of minors, to actively cooperate and to provide the corresponding material and economic resources.” In this way, both areas seek to “guarantee that minors have access to a safe environment, adapted to their needs and rights”, which they demand is financed with state and European funds and with the coordination of the Ministries of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration. “.

Canary Islands-Basque Country proposal

In the proposal sent to the heads of the regional executives, the governments of the Canary Islands and Euskadi propose a cooperation agreement in the field of migration management in four management areas of “immediate” application. The first is a Strategic Migration Plan that includes planning, forecasting different scenarios, evaluation indicators and a real economic report.

To this plan would be added the consideration of considering Euskadi as a northern border after the closure of the border decreed by the French state on November 1, accompanied by “an increased financial provision to serve people in transit with dignity”.

Extraordinary and urgent distribution

As stated at the Conference of Presidents last December, both governments propose that the extraordinary measure be applied in one go period of not more than three months with the right legal figure. Immediately afterwards, they propose that the Sectoral Conference on Children will be the one to resume a calmer debate on the distribution coefficients to be applied in the future.

The proposal defended by the executives led by Clavijo and Pradales also considers the need to be accompanied by medium and long-term measures such as ‘cooperation with the countries of origin’. The goal is that “boys, girls, adolescents and young people can develop their life project in their country of origin.” Likewise, it is requested that channels be set up for the exchange of information on ongoing pilot projects in the countries of origin, such as “Tierra Firme”, led by the Government of the Canary Islands in Senegal.