Last Wednesday, March 22 and Thursday, March 23, a new meeting of the Petitions Committee of the European Parliament took place to discuss a series of petitions received, including three Spanish petitions about migration, alleged violation of fundamental rights in education and compensation for insularity.
The first petition on the agenda was presented on behalf of the ‘Asociación Multicultural de Mazagón y de Almería Acoge’, which claims that there are deplorable conditions in the precarious settlements existing in several municipalities of Huelva and Almería for migrant workers. The petitioner claims that these people would be residing in poorly communicated rural areas without infrastructure or minimum basic services, and that they would not be receiving support or legal advice, such as with the acquisition of the census certificate that would give them access to basic public services and would make it possible to obtain a work permit.
The second petition, presented by a Catalan university professor, member of the collective ‘Universitaris per la Convivència’, assures that there is a situation of violation of basic fundamental principles and limitation of fundamental rights in the public universities of Catalonia, due to the violence that is being exercised against students who express their opposition to nationalist proposals on university campuses. The petitioner considers that both the academic authorities and the police have repeatedly allowed attacks and boycotts against students who disagree with nationalism, since both institutions have adopted a partisan position in favor of nationalism, which contravenes the obligation of political neutrality of the administrations.
La comisión de Peticiones del Parlamento Europeo analiza denuncias en España: Madrid, Cataluña y Elche
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The third petition, presented on behalf of the association ‘Insularidad Digna’, considers that the residence allowance supplement given to the residents of the Balearic Islands would not be sufficient to compensate for the set of disadvantages that affect them in areas such as transport, communications, health, education or cost of living and housing. According to the petitioner, this would result in a staff deficit of approximately 23%, in comparison with other Autonomous Communities, which would generate an under-staffing of public employees, a greater workload and with consequences for citizens in terms of attention and speed in the resolution of cases.
Source: European Parliament – Office in Spain
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