MOSCOW (Sputnik) — On Thursday, the Workers' Commissions and the General Union of Workers, two major trade unions in the country, called on citizens to take to the streets to encourage the government to take all necessary measures to provide refuge for arriving migrants.
According to the manifest issued by the organizers, the number of refugees the country and the European Union are ready to accept does not begin to address the scope of the humanitarian catastrophe.
On Wednesday, Deputy Prime Minister Soraya Saenz de Santamaria said that the country will accept the quota system proposed by European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, in which Spain will take in nearly 15,000 refugees. A total of 160,000 asylum seekers are expected to be accepted in Europe according to the plan.
EU countries are experiencing a rapidly escalating migrant crisis, as hundreds of thousands of people flee their homelands in the Middle East and North and Sub-Saharan Africa in the hope of finding refuge in the European Union.
Some 500,000 people have arrived in Europe since the beginning of 2015, many from Syria and Libya, according to Juncker.
