European Union interior ministers will hold an emergency video conference on Tuesday to discuss last week’s events in Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta. More than 60,000 Moroccans surged across the border, and although the majority have returned the invasion has traumatised many member states.

Who authorised him to speak on behalf of the West? And what hypocrisy to now criticise Italy and Denmark

Who authorised him to speak on behalf of the West? And what hypocrisy to now criticise Italy and Denmark

Italy and Denmark initiated the meeting and soon had the support of twenty other EU countries. In a letter to the European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, the 22 leaders declared: ‘We have a duty to effectively deter and relentlessly combat illegal migration, by coordinating our action, strengthening our external borders and addressing all policies that can serve as pull factors’.

They specifically referenced Spain’s decision earlier this year to regularize a ‘very large number of irregular migrants’.

The leaders of five countries refused to sign the letter: France, Luxembourg, Portugal, Spain, and Ireland.

It will be a small comfort to Spain’s beleaguered Prime Minister, Pedro Sanchez, that he still has a few friends in Europe and the fact one of them is Emmanuel Macron is of no great surprise. The pair are Socialists, and although the French president won power........

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