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What Morocco Was Saying to Spain in Ceuta
['Albert Guasch Rafael', 'Howard W. French', 'Naman Karl-Thomas Habtom', 'Christian Caryl', 'Bret Devereaux', 'Peter Frankopan', 'Alexandra De Hoop Scheffer', 'Odd Arne Westad', 'Suzanne Nossel', 'Hal Brands']
Foreign Policy
On July 30, around 70,000 migrants crossed from Morocco into Ceuta, the small Spanish exclave in North Africa, a city of little more than 80,000 inhabitants.
For decades, Morocco has claimed sovereignty over Ceuta and Melilla, Spain’s second exclave in North Africa.
A former colony of Spain, Western Sahara was occupied by Morocco as Madrid withdrew from the territory in 1975.
This new era of rapprochement with Morocco allowed Sánchez to put bitter chapters such as the Ceuta crisis from 2021 behind him and enter an era of cooperation with Morocco on several matters, including migration.
Could this “triple entente” between Morocco, Israel, and the United States threaten Spain’s control of Ceuta and Melilla?