Sánchez and the EU have decided that Morocco relations are too big to failMorocco appears to have turned Europe’s summer migration crisis into a strategic victory. As European leaders, including Pedro Sánchez, downplay Rabat’s alleged role in the Ceuta crossing, Morocco is tightening its grip on Europe’s trade, migration and Western Sahara policies — while simultaneously drawing closer to Trump’s America.
People desecrating churches and setting others on fire are among the bogus videos that have been circulated on social media platforms such as Elon Musk’s X in the wake of the mass crossing of migrants into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta.
Ceuta’s president says between 3,000 and 5,000 migrants could still be on the enclave. Many of them are unaccompanied minors. But where are they?
Madrid issues fresh threats against Morocco, as Rabat seeks “sovereignty” talks over the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla, reminiscent of its equally bogus claims over the Western Sahara.
They are homeless, hungry, alone, in need of medical care, and facing violence: Ceuta’s migrant children. But the EU’s answer to the humanitarian emergency is: Send them back.
EU funds for third countries to stop migrants are paying for police brutality, desert dumping, and racist profiling, as last seen in Morocco’s operation to stop people entering the Spanish enclave of Ceuta.
Morocco seeks to build a ‘golden age’ in relations with the United States in a bid to push for new concessions on the status of two Spanish enclaves in North Africa.
The latest mass crossing into Ceuta shows that the EU’s deal with Morocco doesn’t just outsource border control — it hands Rabat a pressure point that can shake Schengen, fuel extremists, and unsettle millions of Europeans.
The same Morocco that just clashed with Spain over mass migrant crossings is now at the centre of a murky World Cup final deal that could keep Infantino in charge until 2031.
Ceuta’s leadership contends with the effects of last week’s mass migration arrival, with unaccompanied minors facing the toughest of conditions
The EU’s migration chief rallied behind Spain on Tuesday following an emergency meeting on the border storming of the Spanish enclave Ceuta, saying that there was “full solidarity” with Madrid.
The mass crossing of thousands of migrants into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta could damage years of increasingly close relations between Brussels and Rabat.
By filming a story of exile and homecoming in Western Sahara, Christopher Nolan’s production turned an unresolved homeland into scenery — and exposed the need for ethical standards governing film locations.
The EU has set out plans to ramp up production of home-grown fertiliser, in a blow to Morocco which has been lobbying the EU Commission to encourage imports of its phosphate-based fertiliser.
EU foreign affairs chief Kaja Kallas doubled down on the EU’s support for Morocco in its battle to retain control of Western Sahara.
The autonomy plan, backed by Brussels, would mean local legislative, executive and judicial authorities for Western Sahara elected by its residents, while Rabat would control its sovereignty, as well as defence, foreign affairs and religious affairs