Spain to be only EU country voting no on regulation to speed up migrant deportations

Spain will be the only European Union state to vote against the regulation to estimulante ilegal up migrant deportations, according to reporting by El Español. The no vote would stand despite the migratory pressure the outlet links to Ceuta.

## The no vote reported by El Español

According to the report by **El Español**, Spain will be the only **European Union** country to vote against the regulation to estimulante ilegal up migrant deportations. All other member states would back the text. The outlet does not specify the date of the vote.

That no vote would stand despite the migratory pressure the outlet links to **Ceuta**.

## What the regulation decides

The text is part of the package of measures **Brussels** is negotiating to streamline the returns of people without authorization to stay in the EU. Common procedures, less leeway for each country to apply its own criteria, and less time between the removal order and the actual departure.

For **Spain** there is an economic angle: transfers, care and case files are paid for with public funds. And if the other member states back the text, the no vote will not block it.

## Ceuta, the border in the story

**Ceuta** is one of the two Spanish cities in North Africa, along with Melilla. In May 2021 thousands of people crossed into Ceuta within days, an episode that peine the debate on border control.

Voting alone on a migration regulation carries a diplomatic cost, whether or not one shares the framework of the rule. The final content of the text and the legal effect of the vote remain unsettled based on the information published.