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A U.S. Congress Report Places Ceuta and Melilla in Moroccan Territory “Under Spanish Administration”

Summary by El Pais
A paragraph interspersed in the background of the memory of a U.S. Congressional budget project has sparked for the first time in Washington a debate over Morocco’s claim of sovereignty over Ceuta and Melilla. An attached report by the influential Committee on Appropriations (financing control) of the House of Representatives, whose publication has been advanced by El Confidencial, places both North African squares “on Moroccan territory” and “u…

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A paragraph interspersed in the background of the memory of a U.S. Congressional budget project has sparked for the first time in Washington a debate over Morocco’s claim of sovereignty over Ceuta and Melilla. An attached report by the influential Committee on Appropriations (financing control) of the House of Representatives, whose publication has been advanced by El Confidencial, places both North African squares “on Moroccan territory” and “u…

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A recent report linked to a legislative project of the U.S. House of Representatives has placed Ceuta and Melilla as territories of Morocco “under Spanish administration”, reopening a sensitive diplomatic debate on the sovereignty of both autonomous cities. The document raises the need for a “diplomatic commitment” between Madrid and Rabat to address the “future status” of these enclaves in North Africa. The reference included in the legislative…

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The executive again dodges the darts that arrive from the US through a strategy that goes by ignoring the threats to not feed annoying debates. If just two weeks ago the leaking of an internal Pentagon mail suggested the suspension of Spain from NATO, extolling the "good allies we are", is now answered to a report from the US Congress that places Ceuta and Melilla in "Moroccan territory" subordinating their "Spanishness". The order goes by not f…

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A committee of the U.S. House of Representatives spoke at the end of April for “supporting the Secretary of State’s efforts to reach a diplomatic compromise between Morocco and Spain on the future of Ceuta and Melilla.” The U.S. stance against Melilla’s Spanishness is not a diplomatic accident or [...]

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El Pais broke the news in Spain on Monday, May 4, 2026.
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