Europe should not learn the wrong lessons from Ceuta
From our UK edition
Europe risks learning precisely the wrong lessons from the latest crisis in Ceuta.What unfolded on Spain’s North African border was not one crisis but two. They are closely connected, yet fundamentally different. Failing to distinguish between them risks misunderstanding both, and, ultimately, repeating them. The first concerns Morocco’s long-established use of migration as an instrument of political coercion against Spain. The second concerns the Spanish government’s own approach to immigration and the wider consequences that approach may have for the European Union. Only by separating these two issues can Europe hope to address either successfully.
