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Athens credited its own deterrence for the 34 per cent drop, though European Union figures showed the decline was bloc-wide and the traffic did not simply move west.
Madrid has sent Brussels a first assessment of its needs though it has yet to submit a formal request for money.
The scenes at Ceuta led many European leaders to express their dissatisfaction with Spain's handling of the situation.
Rome wants the European Commission and a majority of member states to put on record their concern about the Spanish decree.
The two documents pulled from the government website recorded a sharp rise in land arrivals at Ceuta and Melilla in the weeks leading up to the mass crossing.
Luís Montenegro stayed out of the letter of 22 leaders challenging Madrid, then delivered a rebuke of his own.
The Kassel regional court also ordered preventive detention after finding the killer would remain a serious danger to the public.
European Commissioner Magnus Brunner stated that the EU has navigated the Ceuta border crisis successfully, urging member states to expedite the implementation of…
Ministers agreed to develop early-warning tools including social media monitoring to detect coordinated surges before they reach the frontier.
The physical divide is the first tangible result of the Meloni government's decision to suspend Schengen free movement with Spain for the month of August.
Migration Commissioner Magnus Brunner sees no direct link with the Ceuta crossings though says the decree sends the wrong message across the EU.
Counter-terrorism officers believe at least 10 men convicted of terrorism offences and deported to Morocco crossed back during the mass entry.
The ex-military said that Italy is being "Governed by a watered-down, fearful right, without the courage to make decisive decisions".
He argued that the broad support for protests against Spanish PM and his unilateral approach showed that “the left-wing Sánchez government is isolated”.
Forensic examination indicated she had died several days earlier, with initial indications pointing to asphyxiation, though toxicology results were still being processed.
The Commission President told Pedro Sánchez that Rabat remained a strategic partner as EU interior ministers prepared for emergency talks.
Members of the court say the mass entry into the exclave was a political failure and not a judicial one.
Spain’s scheme offers a one-year renewable residence and work permit to those who can show they lived in the country for at least five months before the end of…
The Interior Ministry put returns to Morocco at 48,300 by July 31, though reporting from the city described migrants still sleeping rough on beaches and hiding in…
The force was created in 2023 under then prime minister Élisabeth Borne and first deployed in the Alpes-Maritimes department on the Italian border.
Tom Berendsen's intervention has made the Netherlands the second EU government in two days to press Madrid in public.
Mari Rantanen and Riikka Purra said member states that failed to guard the external border should lose their place in the passport-free zone.
The Reform UK leader has said many of those pouring into the Spanish enclave will head for Calais and then Britain.
Swim distances, diving fins and taxi routes to the frontier circulated in public groups for weeks before thousands converged on Fnideq.
Madrid says the Ceuta crossings stem from a Supreme Court ruling and not from its regularisation of undocumented migrants.
Rome's threat has opened a diplomatic rift with Madrid, which summoned the Italian ambassador in protest.
More than 1,500 people have reached the Spanish enclave by sea in little over a week, leaving centres for unaccompanied minors running at 16 times their capacity.
The 19-year-old was 16 when a Rotterdam court convicted him of preparing a jihadist attack and of membership of Islamic State.
Abdul Ballout had been convicted of preparing a serious act of violence and of spreading Islamic State propaganda two months before the Tiergarten attack.
The numbers come a year after the Bundestag approved a two-year suspension of family reunification for people with subsidiary protection status.
