The Red Cross treated 3,121 migrants in Irun by 2025, half the previous year
The Basque Country has claimed to be the "northern border" and has called for "certainty" before the European Migration and Asylum Treaty.
On Friday, the Red Cross released the balance sheet of the humanitarian care service for migrants in transit in Irun in 2025, a year in which it served 3,121 people , almost half as much as in 2024, when 6,243 people were served, a year in which there was a "significant increase" from 2023.
For this reason, the Basque Country has claimed that it is the "northern border" onits way to Europe and has called for "certainty in the face of the implementation of the European Treaty on Migration and Asylum".
As reported by the Basque Government in a statement, both claims have been raised at the Inter-Agency Coordination Table for the Reception of Migrants in Transit, organized by the Department of Welfare, Youth and Demographic Challenge, in the Irun Deposit Area.
The meeting has served to analyse the migration situation in the Basque Country, to know the balance of the humanitarian care service managed by the Red Cross and to share scenarios for the implementation of the European Treaty on Migration and Asylum.
In this regard, the Minister for Welfare, Youth and Demographic Challenge, Nerea Melgosa, has recalled that the Basque Country "has for years demonstrated its capacity to respond based on inter-institutional coordination, cooperation with the third sector and commitment to human rights ".
Thus, it has argued that the recognition of the Basque Country as the "northern frontier" is not a "symbolic" claim, but "a necessity of organization, structure and equity".
The Councillor reiterates that this claim is made "from institutional loyalty and willingness to cooperate".
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