Minister for Home Affairs and Security Glenn Bedingfield participated in an extraordinary online Home Affairs Council on Tuesday, convened to discuss the recent migratory developments in Ceuta, Spain's autonomous city on the North African coast. During the meeting, Bedingfield expressed Malta's full solidarity with Spain and welcomed the swift and
Spain has returned to Morocco 70,000 of 72,000 migrants who entered its north African territory of Ceuta last week, the interior minister said on Tuesday. "We have reasonably established that 72,000 people irregularly entered Spain and 70,000 have already left," Fernando Grande-Marlaska told a press conference in Madrid after a video call with EU counterparts,
EU countries will seek on Tuesday to draw early lessons from the Ceuta crisis after the migrant rush on Spain's North African enclave sent tensions spiking between Madrid and the bloc's more hawkish member states. The unprecedented sight of an estimated 60,000 people streaming into Ceuta from Morocco -- almost all of whom have since left -- exposed
The teenage girl made it through the waves to Spanish territory. Her little brother did not, drowning in the Mediterranean, while their mother disappeared in the chaos when tens of thousands of people surged through the breakwater, trying to leave Morocco behind. The tragic story of a 17-year-old from Tangier is representative of the plight of many
At least 72 people died during last week's mass influx of migrants into Spain's Ceuta enclave, when tens of thousands of people mostly swam around the border post from Morocco, local officials said on Sunday. Most of the estimated 60,000 people who rushed into Spain's north African territory have returned to Morocco since the territory's largest mass
The mass inflow of some 60,000 migrants (at the time of writing) breaching the borders of Spain’s North African enclaves, possibly encouraged by a recent Spanish Supreme Court ruling that prevents Spain immediately pushing back such migrants, has once again thrust migration into the spotlight. Some suspect Morocco, which claims the enclaves as its
When he heard the border had been breached, Abdulah Buji jumped on his motorbike and raced from his home in northern Morocco toward Ceuta, joining tens of thousands of people trying to swim into the tiny Spanish territory in North Africa. Like many of his fellow countrymen, Buji was inspired by the thought that this collective crossing could somehow
