Gema Peñalosa Madrid
Madrid
Updated Monday, January 29, 2024-20:57
The State Border Agency (Frontex) has signed an agreement in extremis with the Ministry of the Interior after an intense week of tensions caused by the Government's desire, Agency sources point out, to control information on immigration.
The agreement occurred this afternoon, almost a week after the deadline to sign the negotiation agreement for the signing of the operational plan proposed by the EU immigration
agency
for
2024
. The delay set off all the alarms. On Thursday it emerged that there were tensions.
That day, Fernando Grande-Marlaska spoke that the solution would arrive in "hours, rather than days." However, his calculations were not correct and the agreement was closed today after ironing out conflicting positions, Frontex sources explain.
The control of immigration data is what caused Frontex to come into conflict with the Interior. Currently, it is the European border agency that manages the database - called Jora - in which information on migrants in an irregular situation is uploaded.
There are stored the notes that result from the interviews that are carried out upon their arrival to try to find the networks that help them reach Europe: photos, fingerprints, the NIE number assigned to them, the country they come from or how they have arrived, among other aspects.
85% of the information is provided by
Frontex
agents . The Spanish Government can consult it whenever it wants. Now, as sources from the European border agency reveal, Spain "wanted to control that database and, therefore, the information."
Finally, the differences - which are not new - have been overcome and the operational plans have been signed for the two joint operations that Spain and Frontex will carry out in Spain in 2024: one called Índalo, which covers the western Mediterranean and another that affects the Canary Islands. .