As a symbolic act, it is launching Thursday the flag of the European Union on the balcony of the City of Cieza as reported by local sources through a press release.
The municipal government of Cieza joins thus the demonstrations called across the state to urge the caretaker government not to support the next European Council later this week the preliminary agreement EU-Turkey to expel refugees arriving European soil for being "illegal and immoral".
Since the municipal government "consider that it is time to end this humanitarian tragedy, which are continually violating the International Bill of Human Rights, the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union and the Geneva Convention for Refugees" .
From here we declare that "Europe can not look away, refugees are waiting for a solution for many months, European policies have resulted in overcrowding of these people in degrading places that do not meet the necessary conditions, and as an example no more to remember recent images seen on television with sludge camps in inhuman conditions. "
"These are the figures of this humanitarian crisis, which speak for themselves, more than 11 million people displaced as a result of the civil war in Syria, of whom more than 4.5 million people have left their country and sought refuge in Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Egypt. Almost half a million people have crossed into Europe with refugees of other nationalities. and more than 26.0000 have died.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cieza