European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has demanded "swift returns" of migrants from the Spanish city of Ceuta and has tasked two European commissioners with addressing the matter.
"Returns must be swift, as our rules allow," she wrote on social network X. "The images coming from Ceuta are unacceptable. We cannot allow anyone to come to our Union without abiding by our rules." Von der Leyen demanded that "dangerous crossings must stop immediately" and that "smuggling networks must be dismantled."
The head of the European Commission said she had tasked European Commissioner for Home Affairs and Migration Magnus Brunner and European Commissioner for the Mediterranean Dubravka Suica with addressing the situation, including by pressing Moroccan authorities to halt the flow of migrants.
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According to Spanish media, thousands of migrants managed to reach Ceuta by swimming or walking around the breakwater separating the city from Morocco, Spanish media reported. According to Ceuta’s mayor-president, Juan Jesus Vivas, the city has been flooded by approximately 60,000 migrants, or up to 70% of its population. At least 34 people have reportedly died while trying to reach Ceuta. Amid the migration crisis, the Spanish authorities have deployed troops to help ensure security in the city. The prime minister said that the migtant influx constitutes a violation of the country’s territorial integrity.
ReplyDeleteAbout 60,000 migrants have crossed into Spain's North African territory of Ceuta from Morocco in the last 24 hours, Ceuta's president said, adding that at least 34 others died during the crossing.
ReplyDeleteThe influx comes after Spain's Supreme Court ruled that migrants stopped at sea while trying to reach Ceuta or Melilla, another Spanish exclave, cannot be summarily returned to Morocco.
Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez described the situation as an "attack" and said all illegal migrants would be returned to Morocco "as soon as possible". Several European leaders have expressed concern, some promising to tighten border controls.
More than 25,000 have returned to Morocco voluntarily so far, officials said.
Il Ministero dell'Interno spagnolo ha dichiarato che, secondo le sue stime, circa 49.000 migranti sono entrati nell'enclave di Ceuta nelle ultime 24 ore, mentre si precipitavano via mare e via terra dal Marocco.
ReplyDelete‘No EU country can unilaterally exclude another from Schengen or suspend its participation in it,’ stated Borrell
ReplyDeleteAnche la Danimarca appoggia la sospensione della Spagna dall'area Schengen. La premier social democratica Mette Frederiksen afferma che l'UE deve valutare tutte le opzioni dopo l'ondata migratoria senza precedenti a Ceuta e afferma di essere in contatto con la premier italiana Giorgia Meloni:
Delete«L'immigrazione incontrollata rappresenta una minaccia per l'Europa e per la Danimarca. Il governo continuerà a insistere sul fatto che le frontiere esterne dell'UE siano sotto controllo. Ho già parlato con Giorgia Meloni e stiamo riunendo i leader europei per discutere della situazione, scrive.
Va da sé che l'UE deve immediatamente adottare tutte le misure necessarie e valutare tutte le opzioni, compresa la sospensione della cooperazione Schengen».
La Finlandia ha sostenuto la proposta dell'Italia di sospendere la Spagna dall'Area Schengen a causa della crisi di Ceuta.
DeleteLa Ministra dell'Interno Mari Rantanen ha dichiarato che i paesi che non proteggono il confine esterno dell'UE «non possono essere membri di Schengen».
Illegal migrants have begun to occupy residential homes in the Spanish city of Ceuta, becoming what are known as okupas—squatters
ReplyDeleteAfter this, owners can no longer simply evict them from their homes; they have to go through lengthy legal procedures, and deporting illegal immigrants becomes significantly more complicated.
According to official data, approximately 60,000 migrants have illegally crossed the border and ended up in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta as a result of the recent sharp increase in their influx. Spanish authorities also just announced that more than 25,000 migrants have returned from the Spanish enclave of Ceuta to Morocco.
ReplyDeleteMadrid espera colaborar con Rabat para lograr cuanto antes el retorno de los migrantes al país africano, aseveró el presidente del Gobierno de España, Pedro Sánchez
ReplyDeleteLa Comisión Europea manifestó su disposición a prestar asistencia a la nación ibérica a través de la Agencia Europea de la Guardia de Fronteras y Costas (Frontex). Mientras tanto, la presidenta de la CE, Ursula von der Leyen, exigió la "expulsión inmediata" de los migrantes de Ceuta y encargó a dos comisionados europeos que se ocuparan del asunto
ReplyDeleteIl primo ministro spagnolo Pedro Sanchez:
ReplyDelete«Il Governo garantirà la sicurezza dei residenti di Ceuta aumentando la presenza delle Forze di Sicurezza nelle strade della città.
Inoltre, in ottemperanza alla sentenza della Corte Suprema, dispiegheremo una barriera fisica in mare per agevolare il rimpatrio al confine.
Accelereremo le procedure di rimpatrio per i migranti arrivati irregolari. E manterremo la cooperazione con le autorità marocchine per continuare a combattere le reti di traffico di esseri umani».
Tras Ceuta, aumenta la presión en Melilla: miles de migrantes intentan entrar en el enclave español
ReplyDeleteEntre 300 y 400 migrantes lograron entrar en el territorio de la ciudad autónoma española de Melilla, situada en el norte de África, estimaron los medios locales.
Previamente, las autoridades trataron de cerrar el paso fronterizo de Beni Enzar, que conecta Melilla con Marruecos.
An increasing number of illegal migrants, who have made it to Spain’s Ceuta on the African coast of the Mediterranean Sea, have been asking border services to let them go back to Morocco voluntarily, The Maghreb Times reported.
ReplyDeleteAccording to the online news website, hundreds of adults and minors have inundated the El Tarajal border checkpoint, asking for permission to voluntarily leave the autonomous Spanish city and go back to Morocco. During their first hours in Ceuta, many of them "felt uncomfortable and discovered that reality was starkly different to the image that had inspired them to illegally cross the border of the city, given its extreme density and the inability to directly cross it from Ceuta to the Pyrenean Peninsula," the news website added.
Nor is it clear what kind of measures Spain may take against them, witnesses say, adding that limited core resources too have mostly influenced migrants’ decision to go back to the North African kingdom.