'Spain is not a rescue brigade'

madrid - Spain wants a responsible policy with regard to migration, but does not always include boats with refugees who are refused elsewhere. 'Spain is not a rescue brigade' said the Spanish Minister of Public Works, José Luis Abalos, on Monday in an interview on TV.

Abalos received questions about migration as a result of boats with migrants picked up from the sea. Spain earlier this month allowed the ship the Aquarius with about six hundred migrants. That was after Italy and Malta had not given permission to enter a port.

The new Italian predominantly right-wing populist government of Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte wanted to send a signal to the rest of Europe that the country is fed up with the refugee flow. The new Spanish government of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez just wanted to show her humanitarian face.

The remark of Minister Abalos points out that as far as Spain is concerned, it remains with the Aquarius. The ship Lifeline, which now lies in Maltese waters without a port in sight, would not be allowed to enter Spain.

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