Border controls have now become political weapons wielded against fellow EU member states. And EU policies designed to ease and lift those controls appear increasingly powerless.
They are homeless, hungry, alone, in need of medical care, and facing violence: Ceuta’s migrant children. But the EU’s answer to the humanitarian emergency is: Send them back.
“People with an Islamic background … do not want an open, free European society,” Frederiksen told MPs, in reaction to a humanitarian crisis in Morocco.
EU funds for third countries to stop migrants are paying for police brutality, desert dumping, and racist profiling, as last seen in Morocco’s operation to stop people entering the Spanish enclave of Ceuta.
Europe keeps spending far more on fighting wildfires than preventing them, even as fires in France, Greece and Spain show the need to shift resources toward prevention.
The latest mass crossing into Ceuta shows that the EU’s deal with Morocco doesn’t just outsource border control — it hands Rabat a pressure point that can shake Schengen, fuel extremists, and unsettle millions of Europeans.
The same Morocco that just clashed with Spain over mass migrant crossings is now at the centre of a murky World Cup final deal that could keep Infantino in charge until 2031.
Ceuta’s leadership contends with the effects of last week’s mass migration arrival, with unaccompanied minors facing the toughest of conditions
The EU’s migration chief rallied behind Spain on Tuesday following an emergency meeting on the border storming of the Spanish enclave Ceuta, saying that there was “full solidarity” with Madrid.
The mass crossing of thousands of migrants into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta could damage years of increasingly close relations between Brussels and Rabat.
The rules of Schengen got a spotlight over the weekend as rightwing leaders clamoured to close the EU’s free movement area to Spain. Here is why this isn’t possible, and why Italy’s one-way suspension is fleeting
Spain’s North African enclave had long been a migrant hotspot, with its local sea known as a ‘cemetery’ to locals. But a sudden increase in arrivals on Thursday, leaving 27 dead, has prompted EU talk of freezing Schenegen travel freedoms.
Under the current EU budget, social spending through ESF+ amounts to nearly €96bn. According to internal calculations made by European Parliament services, total social spending could fall under the next MFF to between €63bn and €87bn.
Despite a strict ban in Spain on products from the illegally-occupied territories, three Israeli agricultural giants are openly boasting about shipping dates and nuts to the country — often relying on local suppliers and major supermarket brands to quietly reach Spanish shelves.
With one of the EU’s last openly left-wing migration agendas and a high-profile clash with Donald Trump over the Middle East, Sánchez’s fight for survival in Madrid could reshape Europe’s political balance in 2027.
From Delhi to Jaipur, India is rolling out facial-recognition technology to monitor millions of its citizens. Investigate Europe has found that behind much of the software is Spanish company Herta Security – but critics argue the government promise of public safety is not the main aim.
Faced with the end of the EU’s post-pandemic fund, the bloc’s leaders are using the cash to finance new sovereign investment funds.
Nato pledged billions more for Ukraine and vowed to contain Russia and Iran. Although Donald Trump’s musings about quitting Europe militarily and strong‑arming allies over Greenland underlined how dependent the continent’s security still is on a single, volatile, leader.
Pedro Sánchez: EU hero or Spanish problem?Many outside observers see Sánchez as a left-wing EU hero, but scandal fatigue has eroded his standing inside Spain.
Despite being one of China’s main economic allies in Europe, Spain’s prime minister has urged Beijing to take steps to reduce its ‘unsustainable’ trade deficit with the EU.