Influx of migrants to Ceuta gives Spain diplomatic headache
In immediate practical terms this episode appears to have been encouraged by Moroccan border guards' readiness to stand aside and allow anyone – mostly younger or middle aged men but also some women and children - to try to penetrate this nugget of European Union territory on the North African coast, whatever the risks.
The political and diplomatic pressure that had piled onto prime minister Pedro Sánchez after the breaching of this key border outpost may begin to fade as an expanded military and police deployment makes itself felt and the authorities process and return those new arrivals who don't leave of their own volition and fail to qualify for a right to remain.
So yesterday's influx of migrants, however temporary, is a practical challenge for Sánchez and a political and diplomatic headache.
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