On Monday 1 March, the President of the Government of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, appealed in the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs to all the Member States to help them deal with the migration situation in these islands.
The Western Mediterranean migratory route is the only one to have experienced a strong increase in 2020. 23,023 migrants and asylum seekers landed irregularly on the archipelago last year, compared to 2,687 in...