The European Commission has warned this Tuesday that although the Extraordinary regularization of migrants planned in Spain is an exclusive competence of the Government of Pedro Sáncheznational authorities must also guarantee that its application will not have “negative consequences” in the rest of the countries of the European Unionfor example that people who receive a residence permit do not then settle in another Member State.
“Migration is a challenge shared between the Member States and the European Union (…). Some matters remain under the responsibility of the Member States and at the same time that responsibility means that Each Member State must ensure that its decisions do not have negative consequences in other parts of the European Union. It is a general principle of our Union,” the Austrian conservative reasoned, in a debate dedicated to regularization in Spain in the plenary session of the European Parliament.
Brunner has further argued that a “Residence permit is not a blank check” to move throughout the European Union and warned that there are “clear rules” that must be taken into account when promoting national regularization plans, for example that If a beneficiary of the measure is detected residing illegally in another Member State “they must return to the country where the permit was granted”.
“That is what we hope to see now in relation to the measures announced by Spain and other similar ones that may exist in other Member States,” stressed the commissioner responsible for migration, who wanted to make it clear that Migration management must respond to a “strategic vision” of the entire Unionwhich also guarantees “safe, legal and, above all, under control” migration.
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