The European Commissioner for Home Affairs, Ylva Johansson, visited the Canary Islands (Spain) on Friday 6 November to discuss with local officials and the Spanish Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska Gómez, the recent increase in irregular arrivals of migrants from North Africa, particularly from Morocco and sub-Saharan Africa.
The Commissioner offered the institution’s assistance in dealing with these arrivals, who have mainly arrived in the “last few weeks”, and she...