Laura Dubois
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first heard Jun 2026
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I think some governments will use this to push some of their more hardline policies.
On Saturday, Pedro Sanchez, the Spanish prime minister, wrote a letter to the European Commission and the European Council hitting back at criticism against Spain.
Because almost as soon as the news broke, far-right and right-wing politicians blamed Spain basically for what was happening.
and pointed the finger specifically at a policy that Sanchez had implemented to regularize a large number of undocumented migrants.
And Sanchez, in his letter, basically says this kind of criticism is driven by prejudice and fake news and asks for a meeting to discuss this.
Within hours of this letter landing, 22 other heads of state and governments, including Italy, Denmark, Germany, and also Austria, wrote their own letter.
And in this letter, they reiterate some of the criticism that we'd seen before and specifically mention the policy of regularization
And basically they say we need to protect our external borders and sort of hint at the fact that a single EU country can't just go their own way.
And what's also important to note is that some of these governments have even called for Spain to be excluded from the Schengen zone, a free movement, something that would be very controversial and difficult to do.
Yes, so then within hours of all these letters, they call this sort of crisis meeting for Tuesday and ministers are now expected to take stock of the situation.
What's also important to note is that the Spanish government and the commission said that most of the people who crossed into Ceuta had been returned almost immediately back to Morocco.
So no one actually crossed onto mainland Europe.
But the ministers will now look at what happened, what are the potential causes.
They might call for additional border control measures, maybe rope in Frontex, the EU border control agency.
And they will also look at the potential role that the Moroccan authorities might have played, because there is already speculation that such a big number of people couldn't have crossed into Ceuta in such a short amount of time without some kind of involvement from the Moroccan authorities or at least some kind of tacit consent.
The big migration crisis that always comes to mind is 2015-2016, when a lot of people fled the Syrian civil war and poured into European countries.
That was the last time we also saw very tragic footage at the borders, a lot of deaths.
And the difference is that at that time, the sort of general mood was a lot more solidarity, whereas now you can really see how the mood has shifted.
There are a lot more right-wing and even far-right governments in power in the EU, and the
You can see by the letter signed by so many leaders sort of hitting back at Spain that the majority around the EU Council table is now very hard on migration and they want more measures and are sort of using this moment also to push for more additional harsher measures.
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