EU discusses extra financial support for Spain after record Ceuta migrant surge

The European Commission is discussing with Spanish officials fresh financial support to potentially bolster border force and humanitarian assistance as the city of Ceuta grapples with the aftermath of an unprecedented surge of migrant arrivals.

Families have gathered at the Moroccan border with Ceuta, searching for missing relatives among returning migrants

Information from military and civilian intelligence sources suggests the Spanish government was warned of the heightened risk of a mass arrival of migrants, with alerts issued over several days prior to the event.

Spain reports 72 deaths as the Ceuta migrant crisis deepens, with intelligence officials saying Morocco allowed border controls to gradually relax.

Morocco’s government said factors such as misinformation and human trafficking lured tens of thousands of migrants into illegally crossing into the Spanish-governed northern African enclave of Ceuta last week. Meanwhile, Spain’s foreign minister said nearly everyone who illegally crossed into Ceuta has left as it tries

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The right-leaning Spanish newspaper ABC highlighted a growing community of Moroccan men living in the woods on the outskirts of the city of Ceuta, Spain, which experienced an unprecedented mass migrant invasion last week that has rattled Europe to its core.

Tens of thousands of Moroccans crossed into Ceuta before being pushed back out by Spanish military forces.

Families in northern Morocco are still searching for loved ones after last week's deadly crossings into Ceuta.

Diplomacy is often an exercise in willful blindness, but there comes a point when reality completely shatters the fiction. For America’s foreign policy establishment, that moment has arrived in Spain. The July 30 collapse of Ceuta shattered the fiction of Spanish sovereignty, exposing Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s san

BRUSSELS, Aug 3 - More must be done to strengthen the European Union's borders at critical points, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen told Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez in a letter seen by Reuters.

Four days after tens of thousands of migrants crossed from Morocco into the small Spanish territory of Ceuta, the death toll continues to rise -- nearing 100.

When a state perceives shifts in the regional balance of power, borders often become the first arena through which strategic messages are conveyed.