Tag: Cueta
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Morocco wants Ceuta: EU still providing Morocco with funds to supposedly control its border
Moroccan Justice Minister Abdellatif Ouahbi has made controversial comments on Moroccan television announcing that Morocco seeks to annex the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla. The Justice Minister made this comments as he was discussing the Ceuta migrant crisis on Saudi-television Asharq News last Tuesday. The Minister said that the Moroccan government engages in regularly…
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Spanish Prime Minister writes to President Von der Leyen and urges restoration of common position
In a strongly worded letter to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez condemned Italy and other European countries that responded to this week’s chaotic scenes in Ceuta by demanding that Spain be suspended from the Schengen Area. The Spanish Prime Minister called on the presidents of the European Council…
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Spain’s Interior Minister blames criminal gangs for chaotic border breach: praises Morocco as a reliable partner
Spain’s Interior Minister, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, held a press conference in Ceuta today and announced that most of the approximately 60,000 people who entered Ceuta illegally during last week’s chaotic events had been expelled. He also echoed the Spanish Prime Minister’s claims, blaming the events on criminal groups while praising the Moroccan government as a reliable…
