{"id":67760,"date":"2026-08-08T11:39:42","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T11:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/67760\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T11:39:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T11:39:42","slug":"us-stresses-ceuta-is-spanish-territory-but-slams-sanchez-for-not-defending-it-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/67760\/","title":{"rendered":"US stresses Ceuta is Spanish territory but slams S\u00e1nchez for not defending it \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many in Madrid expressed fears Washington could decline to rein in Rabat, and pointed to a recent U.S. Congress <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/119\/crpt\/hrpt631\/CRPT-119hrpt631.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">report<\/a> that described Ceuta and Melilla as being in \u201cMoroccan territory\u201d and was supportive of negotiations on the \u201cfuture status\u201d of the cities. But U.S. State Department Spokesperson Tommy Pigott insisted that there has been no change in U.S. policy on the exclaves.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe United States unequivocally supports Spain\u2019s sovereignty over Ceuta and Melilla,\u201d he told POLITICO. <\/p>\n<p>The State Department noted that the congressional report did not represent U.S. law.<\/p>\n<p>Pigott said that allegations suggesting Washington was questioning Spain\u2019s continued control of the cities had been \u201cpushed by\u00a0nefarious actors\u00a0who wish to distract\u00a0from the Spanish government\u2019s shameful refusal to defend its people from the migrant invasion of its territory in Ceuta.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also argued the Spanish government was solely to blame for the crisis in the exclave, into which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/spain-ceuta-migration-crisis-pedro-sanchez-opposition-backlash\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">72,000 unauthorized migrants surged<\/a> last week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe invasion of tens of thousands of migrants into\u00a0Ceuta\u00a0is a direct consequence of the Spanish government\u2019s refusal to defend their sovereignty, secure their borders, and protect their people,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Many in Madrid expressed fears Washington could decline to rein in Rabat, and pointed to a recent U.S.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67761,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[994,192,4446,203,2264,205,1996,17,209,26],"class_list":["post-67760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-spain","tag-cities","tag-defense","tag-giorgia-meloni","tag-migration","tag-morocco","tag-pedro-sanchez","tag-schengen-area","tag-spain","tag-spanish-politics","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67760","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=67760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}