Interior recibe el aval para no informar sobre las ayudas a Marruecos contra la inmigración ilegal

The Council for Transparency and Good Governance has upheld the Interior Ministry’s refusal to provide reports on the use of Spanish funds allocated to Morocco for combating irregular immigration. The organization Acces Info Europe had requested these data to monitor public spending, but the regulatory body determined that their disclosure would seriously compromise public security and foreign relations. It was argued that revealing operational and deployment details would undermine the effectiveness of border policies and damage diplomatic trust with a strategic partner country. This ruling is critical for the open data movement, as it establishes a solid precedent in which general interests of security and foreign policy prevail over the fundamental right to administrative transparency. By classifying these aid measures as part of ongoing international police cooperation rather than as isolated actions, the legal justification for maintaining opacity in sensitive areas of migration policy is broadened. For transparency advocates, this decision represents an institutional victory for state secrecy, severely limiting civil society’s ability to audit how public resources are spent on external security operations. It reinforces the trend of restricting access to information when invoking the maintenance of geopolitical alliances or the protection of operational capabilities, even when public funds are involved.

Source: elconfidencialdigital.com
Published on 2024-11-28

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