Overview

• Spain’s royal decree published in the BOE is now in force, setting a capacity ratio of 32.6 unaccompanied minors per 100,000 inhabitants and enabling transfers over roughly one year for about 3,000 youths.
• Ceuta has formally asked the Ministry of Youth and Infancy to declare an extraordinary contingency, citing about 520 minors for 27 ordinary places, with transfers expected to begin once the request is approved.
• Canarias has signed its own contingency request and Melilla has announced it will seek one, as the decree targets relief for the most saturated systems.
• The government warns it will refer noncompliant regions to the Fiscalía and, if necessary, involve state security forces, while most PP-led communities pursue Supreme and Constitutional Court challenges to the scheme.
• The State plans 110 new reception places from September to speed relocations of asylum-seeking minors, though regional leaders dispute capacities and funding and report slow, limited transfers to date.