{"id":63827,"date":"2026-07-31T16:11:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T16:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/63827\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T16:11:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T16:11:38","slug":"france-ups-spanish-border-checks-as-schengen-unity-wobbles-over-ceuta-crisis-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/63827\/","title":{"rendered":"France ups Spanish border checks as Schengen unity wobbles over Ceuta crisis \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

Meanwhile, Germany\u2019s far-right Alternative for Germany party echoed Meloni, saying<\/a> Schengen with Spain should be suspended if necessary.<\/p>\n

Finnish Interior Minister Mari Rantanen, a member of the right-wing Finns Party, backed the Italian leader on X<\/a>, accusing Spain of failing to \u201cprotect the Schengen Area\u2019s external border from infiltration,\u201d adding that \u201call European countries must support Meloni\u2019s proposal.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sweden\u2019s Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson mirrored those comments<\/a>, saying that his migration minister was \u201cin contact with his Nordic counterparts and does not rule out taking the measures required to ensure that 2015 does not happen again,\u201d referring to another migration crisis when more than one million refugees and migrants traveled to Europe, fleeing wars in Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq.<\/p>\n

Categorizing Spain\u2019s decision to grant residence permits to unauthorized migrants as a \u201cpull factor for illegal migration,\u201d Austrian Chancellor Christian Stocker called for<\/a> the swift implementation of the European Asylum and Migration Pact. \u201cShould the situation in Spain develop in a way that puts pressure on our national borders, we will do everything necessary to protect them \u2014 including, if required, temporary closures of Schengen borders,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Before Nu\u00f1ez\u2019s announcement, Marine Le Pen, the leading far-right candidate ahead of next year\u2019s presidential election in France, urged the government<\/a> to \u201cstep up border controls\u201d and vowed to \u201climit Schengen free movement to EU nationals\u201d if elected president next year.<\/p>\n

Conservative presidential candidate Bruno Retailleau said<\/a> it was \u201cmore than ever necessary\u201d to \u201costracize Spain from the European community,\u201d and that the \u201cirresponsible socialist government\u201d led by center-left Prime Minister Pedro S\u00e1nchez had made the passport-free travel area \u201cuntenable.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meanwhile, Germany\u2019s far-right Alternative for Germany party echoed Meloni, saying Schengen with Spain should be suspended if necessary.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6211,191,2641,556,25786,4446,826,866,25787,128,25788,203,204,8709,205,4912,1996,208,17],"class_list":["post-63827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-spain","tag-africa","tag-borders","tag-elections","tag-france","tag-french-politics","tag-giorgia-meloni","tag-immigration","tag-italy","tag-javi-lopez","tag-libya","tag-marine-le-pen","tag-migration","tag-military","tag-mobile","tag-pedro-sanchez","tag-rights","tag-schengen-area","tag-security","tag-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}