Feijóo strengthens his European image in the pre-campaign with the backdrop of Ceuta and the migration crisis in the EU

Feijóo reinforces his European image in the pre-election campaign with the background of Ceuta and the migration crisis in the EU Based on facts observed and verified directly by our journalists or by informed sources. Choose us as your favorite source on Google. The PP president promises to accelerate returns and a "response" to what happened in the autonomous city in his first major European appearance as candidate for the 29-N. Alberto Núñez Feijóo left Brussels this Thursday with a phrase for the journalists: "We will keep watching... I hope," said he, with the race already accelerated towards the general elections of November 29th. The polls give a clear advantage to the PP and its president passed through the community capital to reinforce his external image and, above all, within the EU framework. He was escorted by the two major heavyweights of his European family, the President of the Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and the German Chancellor, Friedrich Merz. And he obtained several points from the popular leader, especially based on the management of the crisis in Ceuta and migration policy... but also with economic messages. "The more time passes, the more questions arise about what really happened," he stated about the situation in the autonomous city, and began the support for "an investigation" and a "response" in Brussels, said he, regarding what happened on July 30th and 31st. Furthermore, he confirmed that the European Commission will activate the emergency mechanism against mass arrivals before the end of the year. Feijóo insisted that he has the full support of his European colleagues, and contrasted his model with Pedro Sánchez's "failed" management of migration. "I do not know any president who, when their country is invaded, congratulates the invading country, goes on vacation for 25 days to an official residence and smokes a cigar," he commented about the reaction of the current government regarding Morocco. In fact, the PP leader has achieved what Moncloa did not: Europeanize the crisis in Ceuta. And at the same time, he has been able to unite it with the one that, he said, will be his migration policy. He showed himself as a firm defender of the common pact on migration and asylum, which displeases the Sánchez Executive and against which the president is accused of not fully implementing it. In this scenario, Feijóo made it clear that the government "is neither reliable in security policy, nor in border or immigration policy" and that his European counterparts show "surprise" at the management of arrivals and departures from Spanish territory. "Europe has to be in Ceuta" and Spain has to "defend and protect its borders," stated the popular leader. "Defense of integrity" In this regard, Feijóo revealed that his PPE partners were surprised by the fact, he said, that the government of Pedro Sánchez asked to "look the other way" to the massive entry into Ceuta while he was the head of the opposition who was demanding an explicit condemnation from the Eurochamber: "We won that vote," he recalled to show political muscle in Brussels. Likewise, the popular leader also thanked his European colleagues "for the defense they have made of territorial integrity, much greater than that made by the government" and assured that he had conveyed to Brussels the information regarding the presence of Moroccan military ships in Spanish waters during those days, a circumstance that Sánchez "hid". The objective of the PP is for its leader to be strong within the framework of the EU, and not only through migration. He did not delve too much into the matter, but in the midst of negotiating the new bloc budget, Feijóo assured that he "will not accept" cuts to the Common Agricultural Policy or fishing. In this regard, he shares with other colleagues the need to cut bureaucracy, and not so much to invest more money. "They need fewer dead ends," he stated about the primary sector and has defended less paperwork in general and identifying "these regulations that no one understands" and that, according to him, "not even the Commission itself knows the scope, the content or the number of them," with reference to European legislation. This line is what has marked the German government or the President von der Leyen herself. Among all these topics, the PP leader showed a centrist and asked to "recover consensuses" from Spain in the European and international scenes. "There are broken consensuses that we must recover, weakened alliances that we must strengthen and international relations that we must redirect," he commented, and promised coherence once he arrives, he said, to Moncloa. "I will do the same in Madrid and in Brussels," he summarized, again contrasting his global model with Sánchez's. For him, the only purpose of the current president has been to "use" foreign policy "to maintain domestic party objectives". For his part, the goal of the PP is for Spain, the Galician, to be "a country to trust". For the moment, he has obtained the "hug" of his European colleagues. As a sign, the message of the PPE leader, Manfred Weber. "On migration, Europe must act and act united. Ceuta shows that the time to act is now: Spain must fully use the Migration and Asylum Pact and the Return Regulation. Ceuta is Spain, it is Europe. Our borders. Our rules. The Member States, not the smugglers, must decide who enters Europe," he wrote on social media, and shared a photo precisely next to Feijóo. For the popular candidate, he also had a specific message: "We are firmly by your side. The future of Spain deserves the best possible leadership. Every family deserves security, every person a fair opportunity, a reason to believe in tomorrow. A future of order, opportunity, and prosperity." Comments