JUSTICE AND HOME AFFAIRS COUNCIL : IMMIGRATION: MADRID ASKS COMMISSION FOR 45 MN EURO.

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The case is before the Spanish courts. As a result, according to the Spanish home affairs minister, Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom (home affairs) does not intend to open infringement proceedings against Madrid following the recent migration scandal off the shores of the enclave of Ceuta in Northern Morocco. On the other hand, Jorge Fernandez Diaz has asked the Commission for 45 million in aid to cope with renewed African migratory flows to the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla.

The commissioner and the minister met outside the meeting of home affairs ministers, on 3 March in Brussels. Their meeting came in the wake of the controversy in Spain over the drowning of 15 African migrants, on 9 February, near Ceuta, and the Spanish Guardia Civil's...