Spain’s leftwing government is encouraging immigrants to repopulate declining rural areas as its cities are strained by an influx of new arrivals that has made the country a European outlier.
“Without immigration, rural Spain has an enormously difficult future,” said Francesc Boya, the top government official on demography policy, who is overseeing a new national strategy for areas dubbed the “emptied Spain”.
Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has bucked a broader shift in Europe towards anti-immigrant policies as he maintains an open-door policy in response to Spain’s ageing population and plummeting birth rates.
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