US EditionSpain Migrant Regularisation Sparks EU Concern
- Spain has allowed around half a million undocumented migrants who arrived before December 31, 2025, and meet certain criteria to apply for a one-year residence permit and work rights.
- European Union officials have privately expressed concerns that Spain's broad migrant regularisation may contradict EU migration policies and send mixed messages about irregular migration.
- There is worry among EU officials that regularised migrants could use Schengen area freedoms to travel and possibly settle in other EU countries without proper authorisation.
- Spain's migrant regularisation contrasts with the wider European Union trend of tightening asylum rules and accelerating deportations under recent reforms and the European Pact on Migration and Asylum.
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The European Union warns that regularisation is legally a national decision, but cannot have collateral effects on the rest of the Union.
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elcorreoweb.esThe European Commissioner for Migration, Magnus Brunner, warned the Spanish government that "a residence permit is not a blank cheque", in reference to the regularization of more than half a million people approved by the Executive of Pedro Sánchez, during a debate in the Chamber. Continue reading...
"It is a challenge shared by the Member States, a permit is not a blank check," he said.
The European Commissioner for Migration, Magnus Brunner, has once again acknowledged that issues such as the mass regularisation of immigrants decided by Spain fall within the competence of the Member States. At the same time, however, in a debate in the Chamber on the process announced by the Government of Pedro Sánchez, he warned that “a residence permit is not a blank cheque” and that Spain must “make sure” that its decision to regularize mor…
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