Prime Minister Robert Abela has joined 21 other European leaders in calling for urgent EU action following the mass arrival of migrants in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta. In a letter addressed to European Council President António Costa, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin, the leaders asked Ireland,
After up to 60,000 migrants streamed into Spain's north African enclave of Ceuta from Morocco, most by Saturday have now left, according to officials. But the scenes have been seized upon by right-wing politicians as showing a weakness in EU border management, and raised questions about why Morocco allowed so many migrants to head to Ceuta's border
Tens of thousands of migrants who crossed into Spain's tiny Ceuta territory returned voluntarily to Morocco on Friday, a day after the influx triggered chaos in the North African city and reignited the immigration debate in Europe and beyond. At least 57 migrants died on the journey. Ceuta's president put the number of migrants at 60,000, which was
As of Friday afternoon, half of the migrants who crossed into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta had returned to Morocco, Foreign Minister Chris Fearne said following a conversation with the Spanish Foreign Minister. In a post on X, Fearne said he spoke to Spanish Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares about the situation in Ceuta. Fearne said the minister
Some 60,000 migrants have entered Spain's Ceuta from Morocco in the past 24 hours, Ceuta's president says. That is equivalent to 70% of the city's regular population. At least 34 migrants have died in the process. "The situation that Ceuta is going through is absolutely unsustainable," said Juan Jesús Vivas on Friday. The border crisis boiled over
Spain will deploy its military to restore order at its border with Morocco in Ceuta after thousands of migrants streamed into the tiny Spanish territory, with at least nine dying in the attempt. The announcement came after local authorities in Ceuta had asked the central government in Madrid for reinforcements to manage a border crisis that boiled
Madrid on Thursday said it would despatch soldiers to Ceuta to ensure security after hundreds of migrants entered the Spanish north African exclave from Morocco, mainly by swimming, and reported nine deaths. Migration from Morocco into Spain's two north African territories, Ceuta and Melilla, has long been a politically sensitive issue between the