Key questions still remain unanswered as the spill over from Spain’s handling of the migration crisis continues
Europe’s Ceuta crisis is not going away as the big questions still linger over how an influx of 80,000 migrants happened to surge into the Spanish North African exclave.
Pedro Sánchez, Spain’s prime minister, broke his silence on Monday to clear Morocco of charges that it played a role – despite Rabat’s track record on weaponising migration into the Spanish territories that it disputes ownership of.
It is something of a mystery how an incident earlier condemned by Sánchez as a “violation of Spain’s territorial integrity” turns out, in his explanation, to be the result of social media disinformation rather than the actions of the Moroccan border authorities.
The suspicion – widely held in Spain – is that Morocco’s territorial claims on Spanish exclaves in North Africa are at the root of the problem, Sánchez said, is “very serious, dangerous, and gratuitous”. His acquittal of Morocco will feed into the political storm over his handling of the crisis – during which time he remained steadfastly on holiday.
