Ceuta is not a colony.
Christian countries taking back Roman cities with extant Christian populations in the 1400s was not colonialism.
It was the standard push and pull of civilizations of the Middle Ages.
Just like the Moors in Iberia or the Ottomans in the Balkans.
🇪🇺🇲🇦 EU sanctions could trigger an economic crisis in Morocco.
Europe buys over 60% of Morocco’s exports.
🔸 A 25% fall in EU exports could cut GDP by 1.8–2.8% and threaten 375,000 jobs
🔸 A 50% fall could reduce GDP by 3.5–5.6% and put 750,000 jobs at risk
🔸 A near-total cutoff could cause a 7–11% contraction and threaten 1.5 million jobs
If Rabat weaponises migration again, Europe must respond with coordinated economic measures.
Spain is a weak country and weak countries get taken advantage of and exploited. That has always been the case throughout history. Delusional to think that we have moved past that. We haven’t. We are still in a state of nature. It is what it is. Up to Spain to deal with it.
En réalité, avec la situation actuelle au nord du Donbass, difficile de ne pas repenser au 30 juillet 2022, il y a 4 ans.
A l'époque, l'armée russe contrôlait Lyman et Izioum, les deux verrous au nord de Sloviansk. Depuis 4 ans, l'armée russe tente par tous les moyens de reprendre Lyman, pendant qu'Izioum semble inatteignable. Seul point positif pour les russes, ils ont pris Siversk à l'est de Sloviansk fin 2025.
La contre-offensive ukrainienne de Kharkiv en septembre 2022 aura été un désastre complet dans la durée pour Moscou, permettant de délayer la bataille pour Sloviansk d'au moins 4 ans. Les ukrainiens ont remarquablement bien tenu sur leur tête de pont Lyman-Koupiansk, malgré le peu de ponts et la présence de la rivière dans leur dos. La manoeuvre russe en cours entre Lyman et Dobropilla ne fait que débuter.
Rappelons que la "prise du Donbass" (on parlait de 6 villes de plus de 50 000 habitants) est un objectif demandé par Poutine à de nombreuses reprises depuis 2022...
Morocco apparently deciding to behave like Putin's Russia and weaponise desperate migrants is going to backfire very, very badly.
And quite frankly, the EU should aggressively punish the Moroccan government for its behaviour around #Ceuta@vonderleyen@steph_sejourne
The difference is that Poland never neglected its responsibility to patrol its borders. Neither did Poland promise to regularise 500k illegals, thereby creating a massive pull factor on illegal immigration.
Bruno, you are disingenuous.
When Belarus used “migrants” as a hybrid weapon against Poland I didn’t see Finland and Sweden threaten Poland and talk about excluding it from Schengen
There is irony in Morocco demanding Ceuta and Melilla “return” back to Morocco when tens of thousands of migrants climb over the walls precisely because it’s NOT part of Morocco