Spain will call on EU member states to show solidarity over the migrant crisis in Ceuta at Tuesday’s meeting of interior ministers, while criticising Italy over border measures introduced following the mass arrivals, Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares has said.
“We are going to demand solidarity from all EU member states,” Albares told Spanish public broadcaster TVE on Monday.
He said some governments “have not risen to the occasion,” singling out Italy while noting that Spain had supported Rome during previous migration crises affecting the Italian island of Lampedusa.
Albares also accused what he described as an “international reactionary” network of spreading false information about the Schengen area and Spain’s handling of the crisis.
“Unfortunately, these hoaxes have been amplified even by some European governments,” he added.
