As the dead were being counted in Ceuta, as police and troops struggled to regain control of the city, and as residents watched tens of thousands of people cross the European Union’s border within hours, the European Democrats chose to discuss Giorgia Meloni’s clothes. On their social media account, they posted an image of the Italian Prime Minister wearing an EU scarf in 2023 and a red Donald Trump cap in 2026, accusing her of having once demanded European solidarity and now choosing propaganda instead. The party, which belongs to the centrist Renew Europe family, concluded that Meloni stages strength while governing by opinion polls. It is difficult to imagine a more superficial response to what happened.JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official. Between 50,000 and 60,000 people attempted to enter Ceuta from Morocco by land and sea. In less than two days, a mass of people large enough to fill a medium-sized city crossed the border. At least 72 people lost their lives, more than a thousand required medical treatment, and the Spanish authorities had to deploy additional police and military forces. More than 48,000 people were returned only after the border had collapsed. Spain then installed a 500-meter floating barrier along part of the maritime frontier. To describe this as an ordinary migration crisis is to refuse to confront the scale of the event. Europe faced a sudden breach of its external border by tens of thousands of people, deaths, mass panic, the temporary loss of territorial control and the mobilization of security forces on an emergency footing. In the consequences it produced, the event in Ceuta was comparable to a major terrorist attack.