The surge of migrants into Ceuta, an autonomous 7-square-mile Spanish territory perched on the tip of North Africa, subsided as quickly as it swelled. “The political landscape in Europe is so polarized,” says Riccardo Fabiani, the North Africa Project Director for the International Crisis Group. “The weaponization of migration is not new,” says María Belén Zanzuchi, a policy analyst at the Migration Policy Institute Europe. Recommended Having no other gods before GodMs. Petillo says European countries lack the mechanisms to face migration surges together. There are also concerns that they are unsafe and could give countries outside Europe too much leverage over the EU.