Tag: Spain
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Spanish Prime Minister reiterates that Spain has good relations with Morocco: laments again about lack of European solidarity
Interviewed yesterday in New York on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly by Christiane Amanpour of CNN, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said that Spain retains good relations with Morocco and described the two countries as strategic partners. Prime Minister Sánchez nevertheless acknowledged that Morocco’s border-control mechanism had failed during the mass crossing…
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Ceuta migrant-invasion was coordinated while Moroccan Army was busy with Day of the Throne: Spanish declassified documents
The Spanish government has declassified a cache of documents on the Ceuta mass-migration incident including documents by the Spanish Police, Army and Intelligence Services. Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said that the documents show that no one could have foreseen the escalation of crossings and that the authorities acted on time when the events started occurring.…
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Morocco gets its way as EU to pay another €190 million to Morocco over border-control blackmail
EuroNews is reporting that the EU is set to fund up to an additional €190 million to the Moroccan government for up the 2027 for border-control following renegotiations. This is an additional to €220 million in funds already disbursed to Morocco over previous border-security agreements. The new deal has also been confirmed by Morocco’s state…
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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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Malta cadet table tennis team secure fifth-place play-off against Spain
Malta’s cadet national table tennis team produced an impressive performance, winning five of their six matches to earn a place in the 5th-6th position play-off against Spain at a tournament featuring 32 teams. The result sees Malta finish ahead of several established table tennis nations, including Hungary, Serbia, Sardegna and Sicilia. Both Maltese players were…
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Spain imposes border controls on arrivals from Italy until the end of August in tit-for-tat border dispute
The Italian government instituted border checks on non-EU nationals arriving from Spain following the Ceuta crisis, but the Spanish government has responded by introducing border checks on all Italian passengers arriving in Spain until the end of August. The tit-for-tat border dispute began after the Italian government raised the alarm over the border incident in…
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Italy, the UK and Spain remain the favourite destinations for Maltese holidaymakers
Italy, the United Kingdom and Spain remained the three most popular destinations among Maltese residents travelling abroad during the second quarter of 2026, according to the NSO. Residents made 214,123 outbound tourist trips between April and June, an increase of 2.5% compared with the same period in 2025. Italy remained by far the most popular destination,…
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Malta’s Foreign Minister says Ceuta crisis is only a small part of a larger problem
Speaking to CNN, Malta’s Foreign Minister, Chris Fearne, said that the crisis in Ceuta represents only a small part of the wider migration crisis in the Mediterranean Sea. He said that the incident brought European partners together, despite the initial reaction being one of shock. “The population of Ceuta basically doubled in an instant,” he…
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Malta affirms support for Spain after agreeing to an urgent meeting in response to the Ceuta border crisis
European interior and security ministers met online for an extraordinary Council meeting chaired by the Irish Presidency in response to the Ceuta border crisis. The meeting was called by Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, and many European countries, including Malta, endorsed the call. Following the meeting, Malta issued a statement declaring its support for and…
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Spanish intelligence services raise spectre of a repeat of the 2021 Ceuta crisis
Spanish intelligence services have raised the spectre of a repeat of 2021’s cross-border events following last week’s Ceuta crisis, when up to 60,000 migrants breached the border illegally from the Moroccan side. The Spanish intelligence services identified members of the Moroccan secret services among the crowds that gathered at the border, while also reporting an…
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The appeasement to North African dictators and why Premier Meloni is also fully responsible for what happened in Ceuta
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni wants to play the role of the responsible adult in Europe after hitting out at the Spanish government’s failure to control its border in its North African enclave of Ceuta where up to 60,000 Moroccans breached the border in chaotic scenes last week. First, the Italian Prime Minister called for…
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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…
