Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría heads up Inter-ministerial Group to manage immigration and asylum crisis in EU

Moncloa Palace, Madrid

The meeting served to analyse the situation of refugees prior to the meeting of the European Commission, which next Wednesday will present a strategy for the distribution of 120,000 refugees between Member States. Furthermore, the government has called a meeting on Tuesday, 8 September, of the Sector Conference for Immigration, at which the councillors from the regional governments and the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces (Spanish acronym: FEMP) will be represented.

The meeting was attended by the Ministers for Home Affairs, Jorge Fernández Díaz; for Health, Social Services and Equality, Alfonso Alonso; for Employment and Social Security, Fátima Báñez; for Justice, Rafael Catalá; and for Education, Culture and Sport, Íñigo Méndez de Vigo. The Inter-ministerial Group, which is also made up of the ministerial departments of foreign affairs and defence, is dealing with a drama that the government wishes to tackle in a coordinated and supportive manner.