EU backs Spain's migrant crisis response as Italy eases Schengen suspension

At least 75 people died on the Spanish side and 11 in Morocco during the crossing; approximately 800 unaccompanied minors remain in Ceuta facilities facing uncertain futures.

In the final days of July 2026, roughly 72,000 people crossed from Morocco into Ceuta, Spain's small enclave on the North African coast, in what became one of the most concentrated mass border crossings in modern European history. Spain returned nearly all of them within days, earning praise from Brussels even as the speed and scale of the operation raised urgent questions about the human cost of border enforcement. The crisis did not create Europe's divisions over migration so much as it illuminated them — fracturing Schengen solidarity, stranding hundreds of unaccompanied children, and forci

EU backs Spain's migrant crisis response as Italy eases Schengen suspension

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