Spain Blasts EU Allies' 'Selfish' Reaction to Ceuta Crisis: 'Prejudice, Misinformation'
- Between 50,000 and 60,000 migrants recently entered Ceuta from Morocco, overwhelming local facilities and leaving people sleeping in parks. The death toll climbed to 67 by Saturday, with casualties occurring near a breakwater.
- Madrid restored border control within 48 hours, returning "virtually all" migrants who crossed irregularly. Spain also began installing a 500-meter, or roughly 1,600-foot, containment barrier extending into the sea along the border.
- Antonio Tajani blamed Spain's recently closed regularization program for encouraging trafficking, an assertion Madrid rejected. Officials in Finland and Denmark backed calls to consider suspending Spain from the Schengen area over the crisis.
- Seeking coordinated measures to strengthen the European Union's external borders, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni joined leaders from 22 other countries in calling for an emergency meeting. The group aims to combat smuggling networks and accelerate migrant returns.
- In a letter to European Commission President Ursula, Spain defended its migration record. The government stated its policies had "dramatically" reduced irregular arrivals, making the country "the second most secure external border in the European Union.
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Despite the many offers of help from the European Commission and other EU governments, Pedro Sánchez has preferred to manage the Ceuta crisis on his own. He has responded in a hostile manner to the criticism he has received from almost all European partners — whom he has branded as "self-governing" and "pollarizing" — and yet he has given up on the cooperation of the authorities in Rabat, whom he has at no time blamed for his responsibility in t…
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez calls the attitude of a number of other EU countries regarding the migration crisis in the Spanish exclave of Ceuta…
The opposing positions of the government of Pedro Sánchez in the face of the latest anti-immigration policies adopted in the European Union following the wake of the extreme right plus the right of the European political space have caused a lack of unprecedented fraternity towards Spain in the face of the dangerous events of CeutaSánchez accuses several European governments of attacking Spain and calls for an emergency meeting of Interior Minist…
Pedro Sánchez’s government mounted a floating barrier at the point of the greatest flow of migrants to Ceuta; he questioned the “egoistic, polarizing and illegal” reaction of other members of the bloc
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez Calls EU Opposition to Mass Migration "Selfish"
Standing against what he calls “selfish” motives of European leadership, Spain’s socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez says tolerance for mass illegal migration must win over the loud voices of short-sighted nationalism. According to Sanchez, these EU regulations and rules against the dreams of sub-Saharan Africans are polarizing and stopping migrants from fulfilling their greatest aspirations. […]
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