2+ day, 8+ hour ago   (501+ words) Spain's parliament backed a law on Thursday granting citizenship to tens of thousands of Western Saharans who were born when Spain ran the disputed territory, which is now largely controlled by Morocco. The text grants Spanish nationality to Sahrawis born…...

3+ day, 10+ hour ago   (222+ words) Tomáš Svetechovský criticised the Spanish government’s handling of the situation, arguing that it should have acted sooner and requested more European support. “I think that the Spanish government did not react to the situation very well,” he said, calling for…...

3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (461+ words) The European Parliament will debate the situation in Ceuta next Tuesday in Strasbourg, in what is expected to be a heated political confrontation, following a decision by the Parliament’s political group leaders in Brussels on Wednesday. The centre-right European People’s…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (168+ words) Newswav Former Spanish minister: Ceuta incident was a "hybrid attack" aimed at "weakening" the EU Trusted news from Europe’s newsroom The mass entry of around 80,000 migrants into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta from Morocco was a "hybrid attack" on an…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (1071+ words) I am travelling to Latvia for a work trip centred on three d’s: drones, defence and debesmanna. Squeezing in time to the Rīga Conference and other sites relevant to the country’s upcoming EU council presidency — next year — is a must,…...

4+ day, 12+ hour ago   (467+ words) Ceuta’s president, Juan Jesús Vivas, has accused Morocco of a “policy of harassment” towards the city and urged the EU to take a tougher stance and fund border security after some 80,000 migrants entered the exclave on 30 July, distancing himself from…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1196+ words) Migration is taking center stage again in the European Union, as Brussels returns to work after a summer marked by the major crisis of recent years. Over 70,000 irregular migrants entered the Spanish exclave of Ceuta in a single day on…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (389+ words) Spain's government plans to allocate €165 million to Ceuta's recovery, an emergency package of measures that will be approved this Tuesday by the Council of Ministers, one month after the mass arrival of migrants in the autonomous city. The sum will…...

3+ week, 18+ hour ago   (432+ words) A total of 18 migrants were buried on Friday in the Muslim cemetery in Ceuta, three weeks after the border crisis that left more than 90 people dead and led to more than 72,000 people entering the autonomous city from Morocco. The bodies,…...