Editorial: La Vanguardia

• The Schengen Agreement, while a significant achievement for free movement, has not resolved all migration issues.
• Migration pressure is concentrated in countries and regions with external borders, such as the Canary Islands in Spain.
• Instead of solidarity, the European response has been to toughen borders.
• The migratory flow, which can be beneficial to host countries, needs proper regulation.
• The fear of losing voters is driving political parties to adopt more restrictive stances on immigration.
• The Migration and Asylum Pact of the European Union has failed to achieve a more homogeneous management of immigration.
• The perceived lack of coordination among EU member states, as well as the contradiction between the EU's fundamental principles and some recent actions, is alarming.

Conclusion: Greater coordination among EU countries is needed, with agreed protocols and responses that take into account human rights and collective interests, against the threats from the far right.

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