Brussels Wants More Answers Before Reinforcing Frontex
Brussels says Spain must answer open questions before it can approve more Frontex support after a July border surge that sent 72,000 people across.
- On Thursday, the European Commission said Spain must answer "important open questions" before it approves an expanded Frontex mission in Ceuta following Madrid's request for permanent border support.
- Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez faces intense political pressure after about 72,000 migrants crossed from Morocco into Ceuta on July 30 and 31, overwhelming the Spanish enclave's capacity.
- Madrid requested 10 extra officers from the Frontex standing corps and an extension of Operation Minerva, which covers Ceuta, Algeciras, and Tarifa and was scheduled to end on September 2.
- On Wednesday, tens of thousands protested in Ceuta and other Spanish cities against the government's handling of the border situation, while opposition MPs demanded Sánchez's resignation.
- Between 5,000 and 10,000 migrants remain in Ceuta while Italy and France have tightened border controls, and the European Union Agency for Asylum is needed to assist with case processing.
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More than a month after the assault on the southern border of the European Union (EU) with the massive entry into Ceuta of at least 72,000 people from Morocco, the Spanish government and the European authorities avoid holding the Moroccan state responsible for that attack. Spain and the EU also do not want to admit that the assault was a second test of Ceuta's occupation to transform it de facto into Moroccan by means of the massive physical occ…
The European Union is not yet ready to grant the assistance requested by Spain for its northern African Ceuta slave, where in July at least 72,000 people crossed the Moroccan border, said a European Commission spokesman, Markus Lammert, according to Reuters, EFE and Agerpres. "We are making progress on ...
Spain will hand over border surveillance and migration controls between Morocco and the Spanish African cities of Ceuta and Melilla to the EU agency Frontex, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced to Congress in Madrid on Thursday.
the Community executive "provided support from the first day, both with regard to financial support and to the assistance of the agencies", said the spokesman of the European Commission
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