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People\u2019s Party Member of the European Parliament Javier Zarzalejos took part on Saturday, 10 January, in the 28th Interparliamentary Meeting of the People\u2019s Party, held in A Coru\u00f1a, where he spoke at one of the round tables entitled \u201cOn what truly matters: a safe life.\u201d<\/em> The debate, moderated by Paula Prado, Secretary General of the Galician People\u2019s Party, focused on key issues such as education, security, immigration, and citizens\u2019 purchasing power.<\/p>\n During his remarks, the Basque MEP addressed the issue of migration specifically from a European perspective, defending the need to analyze this phenomenon on the basis of data and common policies. Zarzalejos stressed that the measures adopted at European level are beginning to yield results, with irregular arrivals falling from nearly 400,000 in 2023 to 178,000 in 2024\u2014a significant, though still insufficient, decrease.<\/p>\n In this context, Zarzalejos criticized the hypocrisy of both the populist right and the left. He reproached the former for resorting to grandiloquent rhetoric and supposedly tough but ineffective solutions, while criticizing the latter for maintaining an overly na\u00efve view of immigration. By contrast, he stated that \u201cborders can be controlled\u201d and called on the Spanish Government to act responsibly, denouncing a dereliction of duty in territories such as the Canary Islands, which remain one of the main hotspots for irregular entry into Europe.<\/p>\n Lastly, the People\u2019s Party MEP defended the need for proper implementation of the European Pact on Migration and Asylum and underlined that it is up to the European Commission to ensure that the agreements reached are translated into effective results, as an essential condition for guaranteeing an effective migration policy and a safe life for European citizens.<\/p>\n ecta implementaci\u00f3n del Pacto Europeo de Migraci\u00f3n y Asilo y subray\u00f3 que corresponde a la Comisi\u00f3n Europea asegurarse de que los acuerdos alcanzados se traduzcan en resultados efectivos, como condici\u00f3n imprescindible para garantizar una pol\u00edtica migratoria eficaz y una vida segura para los ciudadanos europeos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" People\u2019s Party Member of the European Parliament Javier Zarzalejos took part on Saturday, 10 January, in the 28th Interparliamentary Meeting of the People\u2019s Party, held in A Coru\u00f1a, where he spoke at one of the round tables entitled \u201cOn what truly matters: a safe life.\u201d The debate, moderated by Paula Prado, Secretary General of the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"yoast_head":"\n