Spain's massive plan to regularise undocumented migrants is “an issue” for all of Europe, according to senior MEP Manfred Weber.
In an exclusive interview with Euronews, the president of the European People’s Party (EPP) slammed Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s initiative, which has attracted more than 1 million applications from people already residing in Spain.
Weber said that even though the Spanish law granting residence permits that are not valid in other member states, the move would effectively enable migrant people to move around Europe and thus affect other Schengen countries.
“They can go to France, they can go to Belgium, they can go to Poland," he told Euronews' flagship programme Europe Today. "I would expect that [EU] leaders speak about this kind of massive, 1-million-people legalisation.”
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