The old appeals to solidarity are no longer working.
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The old appeals to solidarity are no longer working.
Spanish national police officers stand as migrants wait during a distribution of food by volunteers at an industrial site in Ceuta on Sept. 2, 2026. | Antonio Sempere/AFP via Getty Images
September 8, 2026
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The Ceuta crisis exposed how migration is framed as a security threat, testing the EU’s commitment to solidarity when national…
Madrid will press its case for more solidarity, as ministers discuss lessons learned, tighter external-border controls and…
"We will not yield an inch", "a failure of EU's migration policies", "demagoguery": the migrant crisis in Ceuta has sparked…
In their willingness to blame Spain, European leaders have shown they cannot be trusted on collective security.
Spain said tens of thousands of migrants had entered Ceuta over the past two days, which has triggered a humanitarian crisis that…
By Diana Tung and Seth M. Holmes (*)<br /> <br /> In August 2026, a deep humanitarian crisis unfolded in Ceuta, a small Spanish…
