Spanish World

Spain with a record number of migrants arriving by sea The record number of illegal migrants (6623) reached Spain by sea from January to the end of April this year. - results from data published on Tuesday by the Spanish Ministry of Interior. The most were in January - 4104. In the same period of 2018, it was 4378 people, which means that the number of migrants who reached Spain by sea increased by 51% . Since Friday, the Spanish sea rescue service has taken on the shores of this country nearly 640 migrants in boats that flowed from North Africa. According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Spain and international organizations in 2018, the country has become the main target of the inflow of illegal migrants into the EU . Earlier, they were mainly directed to Italy. According to the International Organization for Migration (OIM), 57,250 people managed to complete the journey to Spain across the Mediterranean between the beginning of the year and December 26. That is...

Spain is slowly turning into a desert, and temperatures are constantly rising Today I will write about the latest news about the drought problem in Spain. The Spaniards have been struggling with the drought problem for years. Unstable weather and ever thinner soil layer make life more difficult for farmers, and it will only get worse. Recently, part of southern Spain has suffered severe droughts, lowering the water level in Murcia water reservoirs. According to official forecasts, three-quarters of Spain will turn into a regular desert by the end of the century, and if there is no way, agriculture in the south of the country, which is one of the main sources of fruit in Europe, will not survive. The climate change models used by the European Commission predict that by the end of the century temperatures in Spain will increase by more than 2 degrees. According to a special report announced in December 2018 by the European Court of Auditors, three quarters of Spain wi...