Spain attacks 'selfish' response of some EU countries to Ceuta migrant crossings
The leaders urged a coordinated EU response as Spain said 67 people died and 53,000 migrants had already returned to Morocco.
- On Saturday, Spain announced the death toll in the Ceuta border crisis with Morocco has climbed to 67, with deaths resulting from drowning and stampedes at the breakwater barrier.
- Some 60,000 migrants breached the tiny Spanish territory's frontier between Thursday and Friday, overwhelming border defenses and prompting the installation of a 500-meter containment barrier.
- Life in the autonomous city of 84,000 has been disrupted by the border incident. "The return of people has begun satisfactorily," said President Juan Jesus Vivas, though the city remains unsettled.
- Spanish soldiers have been escorting exhausted migrants back across the border at Tarajal beach, with some individuals discovered hiding in tunnels as the Interior Ministry confirms most have already returned to Morocco.
- Among remaining migrants, 23-year-old Moroccan Mohamed Hatri expressed determination to stay despite hardship. "Even if they close it down & we're round to stay here," he said, illustrating ongoing tensions.
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Spanish leader slams ‘selfish’ EU response as death toll from Ceuta crossings climbs
Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has denounced the “selfish” response of several EU member states to an influx of migrants crossing into the Spanish exclave of Ceuta from Morocco this week, as the number of people who died rose to 67. Most of those 50,000 to 60,000 people who attempted the crossing had returned to Morocco by Friday evening, Spanish authorities said. Authorities in Ceuta said many of those who lost their lives drowned as crow…
Spain's Pedro Sánchez blasted Italy's Giorgia Meloni for restoring border controls after 50,000 migrants surged into Ceuta, demanding an EU meeting.
In response to the migration crisis following the events in the Spanish exclave Ceuta, 22 of the 27 EU Member States requested an emergency meeting of the Interior Ministers. The events of the past days required an immediate and coordinated European response, according to a letter to the Irish Presidency of the Council of the EU. Among the signatories are Chancellor Merz and Italian Prime Minister Meloni.
It is in a series of letters addressed to Brussels that the political clash has taken place that sees the Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and a large part of the European governments opposed, after about 50,000 migrants entered the Spanish exclave of Ceuta
European governments billed Pedro Sánchez partly for political opportunism; their leaders try to respond to the demands of radical movements
Internal conflict within the European Union (EU) is intensifying over responsibility for the surge in migrants as tens of thousands of Moroccan migrants rapidly crossed the border into Ceuta, a Spanish territory in North Africa. As the blame game between member states intensifies, EU leaders have convened an emergency ministerial meeting to resolve the situation. According to a compilation of reports from major foreign media outlets, including t…
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