The Ceuta Border Incident Shows How EU Migration Can Be ‘Weaponised’ – but Overall Levels Are Declining
- Last weekend, 80,000 people, primarily young men, swarmed across the border from Morocco into the Spanish town of Ceuta, challenging Spain's sovereignty and the global diplomatic order.
- Mass migration is morphing from a humanitarian issue into a global security concern, with the border breach testing European conceptions of territorial control and state sovereignty.
- The Combat Antisemitism Movement found over 100 million social media users were exposed to claims of a 'Jewish plot' within 72 hours, while both the woke Left and crank Right blamed the Jewish state for the crossing.
- Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez condemned the incident as an assault on Spanish sovereignty, complicating his previous pledge to regularize 1 million refugees within Spain.
- Analysts warn countries like Russia and Belarus may 'weaponize' migrants to threaten neighboring states, citing past influxes along Lithuania, Poland, and Latvia borders, while Morocco remains an Abraham Accords ally with Israel.
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DN DEBATT. The wave of migration in Ceuta was not the first the world has experienced, and hardly the last. Forced migration crises have become a winning concept for opportunistic and authoritarian regimes, which threaten to stop acting as "gendarmerie" for Europe if their demands are not met. Europe's response? Panic, writes Ruben Andersson, professor of social anthropology at Oxford.
In Ceuta, the situation was different from Merkel's refused border closure in 2015: illegal migrants were sent back. Nevertheless, Spain's head of government in the EU is critical – and Merz-Agenieren leads to a strange result.
The restrictions had been introduced as a result of the migration crisis in Ceuta
The invasion into the Spanish enclave of more than 70,000 people from Morocco, between 30 and 31 July, brought to light the cracks and solidarity that cross this city, where Christians and Muslims have always coexisted.
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