Editorial: Migration - Europe Must Stand Together
The surge has fueled disputes over burden-sharing, pushbacks and Schengen rules as northern EU states press Spain to tighten enforcement.
- Following a Spanish Supreme Court ruling preventing immediate pushbacks, 60,000 migrants breached the borders of Spain's North African enclaves, thrusting migration back into the spotlight.
- Spain's recent amnesty program, intended to regularize half a million migrants, attracted 1.2 million applicants instead, stretching the patience of European partners over enforcement.
- Italy responded by calling for Spain to be suspended from the Schengen area; The Catalan accused Morocco of "blackmailing" Spain and "turning its own people into cannon fodder" at the service of the United States and Israel.
- Asylum applicants often continue traveling to other member states despite the Dublin system that theoretically regulates the process, while authorities report evidence of people from Latin America being trafficked into the EU through Spain.
- While the new Pact on Migration and Asylum remains contentious, its success depends on consistent implementation across all member states, as any breakdown of border control undermines public confidence and fuels the far right.
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Spain forfeited its borders. Trump should hand Ceuta to Morocco
Diplomacy is often an exercise in willful blindness, but there comes a point when reality completely shatters the fiction. For America’s foreign policy establishment, that moment has arrived in Spain. The July 30 collapse of Ceuta shattered the fiction of Spanish sovereignty, exposing Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s sanctimonious strategic deterrence. For years, he lectured allies on decolonization while exempting Spain’s own enclaves, but Morocc…
Commenting on the situation regarding the influx of migrants into the Spanish exclave of Ceuta, Foreign Minister Kęstutis Budrys states that the European Union (EU) must be prepared to respond to possible new migration challenges.
Weaponised migration menaces Europe
Was Ceuta just the start?
The images of the onslaught of the Spanish exclave are water on the mills of the right-wing populists. The EU must send a strong signal.
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