Spain confronts EU migration hawks in tense Ceuta talks
Spain’s interior minister faced off with hawkish EU counterparts Tuesday in a tense video call to draw lessons from the mass influx of migrants into the North African enclave of Ceuta — which laid bare the bloc’s fault lines on migration.
While Spain moved swiftly to send migrants back from Ceuta, the government of Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has backed a more open approach to migration than many EU counterparts — including hardliners like Italy and Denmark.
Twenty-two countries led by Italy, Denmark, Germany and Hungary sent a letter of their own on the Ceuta crisis, warning against migration “policies that can serve as pull factors” and citing Spanish-style regularisation schemes as a case in point.
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