Spanish Prime Minister Sanchez fends off blistering criticism within the EU over Ceuta crisis
More than 60,000 people crossed into Ceuta, prompting a humanitarian emergency and renewed EU divisions over migration policy, officials said.
- On Thursday and Friday, more than 60,000 people crossed into Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta, triggering a humanitarian emergency that forced Spain to deploy additional military and police forces.
- A senior Moroccan official warned Spanish authorities in late July that a court ruling would create problems, rejecting claims the surge reflected a failure of Morocco's security forces.
- Ireland convened an emergency video meeting of EU interior ministers after 22 of the 27 member states called for "coordinated action and the strengthening of external borders," while Italy announced temporary border controls.
- Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez rejected the criticism, noting Italy recorded 478,000 migrant arrivals since 2021 compared to Spain's 234,000, and arguing the position was "contrary to European law, humanitarian law, and the principles of solidarity."
- More than 80 migrants died during the crossing, while political scientist Mariam Martnez-Bascunan warned the crisis reveals the European world "is falling apart" because member states retreat to their own interests during emergencies.
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Spain: Pedro Sánchez Declares Border War on His Own Country – The American Spectator | USA News and Politics
Last week’s invasion of the Spanish cities Ceuta and Melilla by hordes of North Africans has triggered a unified response from Europe but not the one that the European Union’s ruling globalists want. The presidents of 22 EU countries signed a letter to European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen denouncing Spain’s recent legalization of over one million illegal migrants and court decisions protecting illegal border crossings as “pull fact…
Pedro Sánchez is currently the EU's businessman. The tense situation in Ceuta is probably only the drop that caused the barrel to overflow.
The executive of the socialist Pedro Sánchez is more fragile than ever after what many call a "migration invasion" in the territory of Ceuta. His immigration policy and his strategy vis-à-vis the Moroccan neighbour are controversial in SpainThe Minister of the Interior Fernando Grande-Marlaska has yet to certify that 70,000 of the 72,000 people illegally entered Ceuta on Thursday 30 July have now joined Moroccan territory, the Spanish government…
Sanchez warned half saved. But since comrade Pedro is presumptuous, because the socialist mind is presumptuous, he wanted to do his own thing. Moral of the ugly fairy tale? He went to bang. But, here's the point, better he went to bang him than the whole Europe that, in the ninth instance, finds itself sided on the opposite side with the letter of Giorgia Meloni and 21 other Member States. Then, let's try to look at the dramatic facts of the las…
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