Overview

• Cabinet approval of a decree on Tuesday will set each region’s required capacity, with the redistribution mechanism scheduled to begin on August 28.
• The plan projects relocating about 3,000 minors over a year from the Canary Islands, Ceuta and Melilla, using criteria such as population, income, unemployment and prior effort.
• The government has earmarked €100 million for 2025, will pay transfer costs, and will cover at least the first three months of reception expenses, with extra compensation for overburdened territories.
• Most PP-governed regions, plus Asturias and Castilla-La Mancha, have filed challenges; Madrid and the Balearic Islands have appealed recent decrees, and Baleares will ask the Supreme Court to suspend the distribution on its territory.
• A fourth group of asylum-seeking minors flew from the Canaries to the mainland on Sunday under a Supreme Court order, and authorities report nearly 400 recent transfers from Euskadi to state centers as the Canaries press for faster relief due to overcrowding.