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Spain to Present Ideas on Solving Refugee Crisis to EU - Prime Minister

© REUTERS / Andrea ComasSpanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy holds a news conference at Moncloa palace in Madrid November 12, 2014
Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy holds a news conference at Moncloa palace in Madrid November 12, 2014 - Sputnik International
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Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said that Spain will present its ideas on solving the migrant crisis to other EU member states.

Migrants carry their belongings as they walk towards the Austrian border from Hegyeshalom, Hungary September 23, 2015. - Sputnik International
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MADRID (Sputnik) Spain will present its ideas on solving the migrant crisis to other EU member states, Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said Thursday.

"We shall present suggestions on asylum and migration. We support the right to asylum for those people who cannot live in their countries due to political persecution," Rajoy said, arriving at the meeting of the European People's Party.

Rajoy said a delegation from Madrid would soon visit Italy, which is currently hosting refugees who are scheduled to be transferred to Spain under the quota system.

Europe has been overwhelmed by a refugee crisis, with hundreds of thousands of undocumented migrants fleeing their home countries in the Middle East and North Africa to escape violence and poverty.

Over 710,000 migrants arrived in the European Union during the first nine months of 2015, EU external border protection agency Frontex said last week.

On September 22, home affairs and justice ministers for the bloc's 28 member states agreed to a European Commission proposal to resettle some 120,000 refugees currently in Greece, Italy and other EU frontier states directly affected by the crisis.

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