{"id":79607,"date":"2026-09-02T18:43:48","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T18:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/79607\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T18:43:48","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T18:43:48","slug":"spains-sanchez-calls-national-security-meeting-26-days-into-ceuta-migration-crisis-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/79607\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain\u2019s S\u00e1nchez calls national security meeting 26 days into Ceuta migration crisis \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Ceuta crisis erupted<\/a> at the end of July, when tens of thousands of people entered the coastal semi-exclave in North Africa in the space of 24 hours, forcing Spain to deploy<\/a> the army after border forces were overwhelmed. S\u00e1nchez flew to Ceuta and branded<\/a> the crossings an \u201cattack\u201d and a violation of Spain\u2019s territorial integrity. Most migrants subsequently returned to Morocco, but thousands remained.<\/p>\n

Madrid is now working to clear the remaining backlog. Around 5,000 migrants remained in Ceuta on Aug. 13, the interior ministry said<\/a>. The opposition People\u2019s Party is demanding more immigration officers be sent to Ceuta to process returns around the clock, while the health ministry and regional governments are dispatching 25,000 vaccine doses to guard against outbreaks of infectious disease.<\/p>\n

The incident reignited a debate on unauthorized migration at the European level, with 22 EU leaders signing a letter<\/a> calling for stronger EU external borders. It also triggered a feud between Spain and Italy after Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni\u2019s government imposed temporary checks<\/a> on people arriving by air and sea from Spain, and Madrid retaliated with controls<\/a> on travelers from Italy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ceuta crisis erupted at the end of July, when tens of thousands of people entered the coastal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[190,191,16345,21885,4446,826,9957,866,19790,203,2264,205,3205,208,8482,17,209,29915],"class_list":["post-79607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-spain","tag-alberto-nunez-feijoo","tag-borders","tag-crisis","tag-denmark","tag-giorgia-meloni","tag-immigration","tag-infectious-diseases","tag-italy","tag-mette-frederiksen","tag-migration","tag-morocco","tag-pedro-sanchez","tag-santiago-abascal","tag-security","tag-space","tag-spain","tag-spanish-politics","tag-vaccines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79607","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=79607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}