Spain’s Crisis Could Spread Through the EU Like Wildfire, With No Cure for the Left-Led Government

Ceuta’s latest crisis began with a tent camp. Authorities started erecting the temporary complex in the city’s Los Rosales district, directly beside an operating kindergarten. Angry parents and residents then built barricades, fought with riot police and set fire to part of the newly installed tents.

They also physically blocked Red Cross aid deliveries from reaching the area. Ceuta’s mayor said the city could no longer care for more people and that public security had collapsed.

The confrontation quickly crossed Spain’s borders. Twenty-two EU member states, led by Italy and Denmark, sent European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen an angry official letter. The governments blamed Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez for the chaos, arguing that an amnesty program announced earlier in the year had promised Spanish papers to more than one million irregular migrants.

The EU states described that promise as an invitation to Moroccans and said the decision now threatened security across the Schengen area. The article presents the dispute as a crisis that could spread through the European Union.

Washington also entered the confrontation. Donald Trump openly sided with Morocco and said the Spanish government was helpless on its own borders. A US congressional budget committee prepared a statement that would effectively recognize Ceuta and Melilla as Moroccan territory. The United States also increased pressure with $40 million in direct military support for Morocco.

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The Spanish government is helpless on its own borders.