Alberto Núñez Feijóo He traveled exactly four weeks ago to Rome met Giorgia Meloni again. The picture of the meeting between the two countries was full of symbols. The leader of the PP has been talking for some time about the success of his model to deal with immigrants who oppose the inaction of Pedro Sánchez. This is why the words that were tested yesterday in Brussels, just after meeting with some European PP leaders, in which Feijóo did not want to clearly support the place opened in Albania to relocate Italian immigrants, were surprising.
Shortly before the intervention, the European PP published a statement to which all the leaders of the conservative family subscribed. In Genoa he realizes that Feijóo did not extend himself on the document – in which he supports “intellectual solutions” and “artistic” from the Italian point of view. But – despite being repeatedly asked – he insisted on supporting “special elections” for the member states without mentioning the place of migration.
PP sources explain that “If I wanted to set up automatic support I would do that”. The goal was not to get out of the international agreement, but to give time to see how the Italian experiment works – of the first 16 migrants who came down, four had already had to return to the transalpine country because they are young in the culture of the whole risk – and, above all, because of the strong Feijóo it assumes that this new argument. “Distracting the focus” to his goal is the Canary Islands.
The PP has been fighting for a long time including the European Commission in the event of an emergency in which the islands and the autonomous city of Ceuta are found. This demand – to directly involve the Union and establish a request to strengthen Frontex – is very important to continue negotiations with the Sánchez Government. And exactly why The PP recently abandoned negotiations. In addition, as the newspaper published, the conservatives have already put on the table by studying the possibility of receiving migrant children who arrive in the Canary Islands. Other Member States have taken part.
The fact that now the European debate is focused on the same place as Albania – taking Italy as an example – and without Von der Leyen speaking before investigating the same with all the other countries and the leaders of the PP – and Feijóo not. he did – leading the Galician leader to withdraw his clear support.
What Feijóo is looking for is not directly connected to that idea -which the president of the Commission has been defending for several days- until the situation in the Canary Islands progresses. “We will not just focus on another issue without our requests being made clear,” they insist in Genoa. The leader of the PP wants the clear participation of Von der Leyen which at present is not much explained. The document of the European Conservatives contains the positions that Feijóo clearly defends and the new Mediterranean Pact, but the goal of the PP has long been for Europe to claim the southern border of Spain as its own. increase the speed of Sánchez.
The Spanish government is the only government that has clearly rejected Meloni’s proposed migrant camps. All other European countries seem to have joined the fray, even some like Germany which is led by the Social Democrats Olaf Scholz – tired of politics – did not defend their position emphatically. In recent weeks, like Britain’s Keir Starmer, he has strengthened his immigration policies at the height of the rise of German independence.
In fact, as the newspaper published, Feijóo also believes that his attitude towards migration has changed so much that he will get out of trouble. behind Vox. His trip to Europe – to Greece, Italy, Poland and this Friday he will be in Berlin to meet the leader of the German CDU – was aimed at finding a place in the debates that the PP sees the Government “very confused” and “and less leadership.” It is perhaps the first time that a conservative leader has taken action in a global conflict.
Therefore, the warmth shown yesterday from Brussels has more to do with his political views and message to Von der Leyen than a strong disagreement with what Italy is doing.
