Spain attacks 'selfish' response of some EU countries to Ceuta migrant crossings

There were chaotic scenes connected Thursday successful Ceuta arsenic borderline controls successful the North African enclave seemingly broke down.

On Saturday morning, Spanish MEP Juan Fernando López Aguilar told the BBC that the concern was "beginning to get nether control" and the migrants were "returning peacefully".

But portion the concern connected the crushed is easing, governmental and diplomatic fallout is rippling done Madrid and different capitals.

On Thursday, Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni wrote connected societal media that specified "uncontrolled immigration" was a menace to nationalist security, earlier suspending the Schengen portion statement with Spain for a month.

The Schengen Area is simply a strategy of unfastened borders spanning 29 European countries that person abolished controls astatine their communal borders.

Spain responded by summoning the Italian ambassador to Madrid, portion its overseas curate said helium expected "European solidarity and not partisan demagoguery".

Finland's Interior Minister Mari Rantanen said she had started preparations for restoring interior borderline checks "if the request arises". She besides urged "all European countries" to enactment Meloni's move.

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen besides urged the EU to "consider each options, including a suspension of Schengen co-operation".

France has tightened checks connected its borderline with Spain and said it would summation its constabulary beingness by Saturday.

Portuguese PM Luis Montenegro said helium was considering reinforcing borderline checks.

Von der Leyen said the images from Ceuta were "unacceptable". "We cannot let anyone to travel to our Union without abiding by our rules," she said connected societal media.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said helium "supports Spain's volition not to let amerciable migrants onto the European continent", and demanded that Morocco "take backmost amerciable migrants immediately".

In the US, the authorities section said the incidental was a nonstop effect of Spain's migration policies. President Donald Trump called the concern a "catastrophe" and said "it looks similar an penetration of a state by hundreds of thousands of people".