Migration remains an opportunity for Europe, Spanish economy minister tells Euronews

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Migration remains an opportunity for Europe, Spanish economy minister tells Euronews  Spanish Economy Minister Carlos Cuerpo said migration remains an economic opportunity even as the debate around it is hijacked by political forces, with false narratives about migrants amplified by social media.   READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2025/12/11/migration-remains-an-opportunity-for-europe-spanish-economy-minister-tells-euronews  Subscribe to our channel. Euronews is available on Dailymotion in 12 languages

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00:00Spain's Minister for Economy, Trade and Business, Carlos Cuerpo, told Euronews that migration

00:07is an opportunity for Europe, but that it has taken a racist undertone.

00:13He argued that the influx of workers due to migration can provide an economic lifeline

00:17for Europe, a continent that is struggling to keep up with its aging population.

00:23The minister said that in the case of Spain, which is now the fastest growing economy in

00:27the euro area, the flow of workers from other countries has boosted its economy.

00:33Migration is a big opportunity for Spain.

00:36There's an analysis from the Bank of Spain saying that between 0.4 and 0.7 percentage

00:41points of per capita growth for the past three years, which per capita growth in total was

00:45around three percentage points, 0.4 to 0.7 were due to migration, were thanks to migration.

00:51Cuerpo said that the debate around migration, both legal and irregular, is being instrumentalized

00:56by fake news, and a coordinated political push by conservative forces through statements

01:02including that some cultures cannot be assimilated.

01:05I think those sort of statements have an undertone of racism, and I think we should really combat

01:12that through data and through evidence.

01:14One of the elements that is happening is, of course, these false narratives and these fake

01:20news in terms of the impact of migration that are leading towards a negative bias.

01:25And that's not grounded in data.

01:27Earlier this week, EU ministers agreed on sweeping changes for migrant returns and repatriations.

01:33The Spanish minister argued that the focus, instead, should be on integration.

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