Italy-Spain fallout: United by geography, divided by politics
Italy and Spain’s Schengen border spat over Ceuta has exposed a deeper migration rift, as domestic politics and rising far-right rivals harden both sides’ positions.
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‘Ceuta is Spain’: Hundreds of people protest Spanish government’s response efforts over migrant influx crisis
Hundreds of Ceuta residents gathered on Sunday to demand an “immediate, decisive and proportionate” response to the migration crisis, in a protest, organised by the city’s four religious communities.
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Spain to introduce retaliatory border checks on travellers from Italy
Rome had earlier said it “does not accept ultimatums or impositions from abroad regarding national security and border control.”
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‘Red Orbán’ or visionary? Ceuta crisis puts Sánchez’s EU standing under scrutiny
The Ceuta crisis exposed Spain’s growing marginalisation within Europe. Analysts say Sánchez’s disputes with EU partners over security, migration, China and defence are reinforcing perceptions of an increasingly isolated Madrid.
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EU ministers back Spain, seeking to calm tensions after Morocco crisis
Migration Commissioner Magnus Brunner said an emergency meeting of EU interior ministers today was aimed at easing tensions with Spain amid a Europe-wide backlash against Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s migration policies.
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Ceuta explained: How Spain’s biggest migration crisis unfolded
The mass arrival of over 70,000 people from Morocco in the Spanish enclave within hours raises questions about the real causes of the border collapse, the diplomatic tensions with Rabat and Washington, and the strategic role of the Strait of Gibraltar.
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At least 88 dead in Ceuta, Spain says, as EU prepares talks on uncontrolled migrant crossings
Most of the estimated 60,000 people who rushed into Spain’s north African territory, most by swimming, have returned to Morocco since the territory’s largest mass migrant crossing.
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Italy brings in border checks for arrivals from Spain: what changes
Italy has reintroduced checks on travellers arriving from Spain after the Ceuta crisis. ID checks are carried out at Italian ports and airports for non-EU citizens; here is how.
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Situation in Ceuta ‘almost entirely reversed’ as death toll climbs to 67, Spain says
Under the watch of Spanish soldiers and police, the last remaining young migrants continued crossing back over the border to Morocco on Saturday morning.
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Sánchez slams Europe’s lack of solidarity over Ceuta in letter to von der Leyen
In a letter Saturday, Sánchez laments what he describes as a lack of EU solidarity driven by “prejudice, misinformation and attacks” for political gain.
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