EU-Latin America: Deporting Illegal Immigrants in Exchange for Investment?

At times when the Latin American governments expressed their unanimous rejection to the EU’s “Return Directive” that threatens with imprisoning and deporting illegal immigrants in the bloc’s 27 member countries, Spain is expressing its “will” to increase its investments in the region as a form of “compensation”, and it is promoting Economic Partnership Agreements. On July 28th, the Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Miguel Angel Moratinos, expressed his “great interest” in that Spanish corporations increase their investments in Uruguay, in conversations with the Uruguayan Foreign Minister Gonzalo Fernandez. He said this is possible because of the good business atmosphere in Uruguay.

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