EU Should Use Leverage with Morocco After Ceuta Crossings, EU Migration Chief Says
Brunner said the bloc should use visa and trade tools after about 72,000 migrants entered Ceuta, as critics warned of dependence on transit states.
- On Thursday, EU Migration Commissioner Magnus Brunner urged the European Union to use visa and trade leverage to secure Morocco's cooperation on migration, stating that controlling borders requires reliable neighbor cooperation.
- About 72,000 migrants entered the Spanish enclave of Ceuta last week, marking one of the largest movements into European Union territory in recent years, which authorities allege was driven by smuggling networks.
- Ceuta Mayor Juan Jesus Vivas told lawmakers on Thursday that around 100 people died during the crossing, with between 3,000 and 5,000 migrants remaining in the enclave.
- While Lahcen Haddad of the EU-Morocco Joint Parliamentary Committee defended Morocco's record, claiming it prevented more than 227,000 irregular crossings since 2023, humanitarian group PICUM warned that new sanctions ignore safe migration pathways.
- Commissioner Brunner urged the European Parliament to advance an anti-smuggling directive proposed nearly three years ago, though critics warn such policies expose the bloc to pressure from transit countries.
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Magnus Brunner made this statement a week after a wave of tens of thousands of migrants who entered Morocco into the Spanish slave Ceuta. EU Migration Commissioner Magnus Brunner warned Thursday that the European Union is vulnerable to...
The European Union must use all the levers in its relations with Morocco, including visa policy, to impose a cooperative attitude on that country's migration issue, European Commissioner for Migration Magnus Brunner said on Thursday, a week after the massive wave of migrants who entered the Spanish enslavement Ceuta on the coast ...
The events of July and August in Ceuta also make it clear that the EU is operating under the long shadow of the 2015 "migration crisis". The post EU: After Ceuta, Europe is once again immersed in a migration chaos of its own making appeared first on in.gr.
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