EU needs
to strengthen external borders, EU's von der Leyen tells Spain's Sánchez
More must
be done to strengthen the European Union’s borders at critical points, European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen told Spanish prime
minister Pedro Sánchez in a letter.
In the
carefully-calibrated letter, first reported by Reuters and a number of Spanish
media, von der Leyen was quoted as congratulating Spain for swiftly
handling the incident and “successfully preventing” the onward
migration to mainland Spain and the EU.
But her note
also calls for strengthening the border to avoid similar incidents repeating.
“In
cooperation with Spain, especially on anything related to Ceuta and Melilla, we could enhance border management early-warning systems and improve our technical and
financial support to Morocco,” she wrote in the letter.
We are
working on getting the full text of the letter for you.
Updated
at 13.06 BST
Italy's
decision to reintroduce border controls with Spain published
There is
also an update on the political fallout from the migration crisis in Ceuta last
week.
Earlier
today, Italy’s formal notification of the temporary reintroduction of
border controls with Spain has been added
to the EU’s register.
It quotes
“threats to public policy and internal security” and “the management of
migration flows due to recent events in the Spanish autonomous city of Ceuta,
resulting from large-scale irregular entries of third-country nationals, with a
risk of secondary movements within the Schengen area.”
(Just a
reminder: that last bit is heavily contested as there is no free flow of people
from Ceuta to the rest of the EU, with strict border controls for anyone
leaving the territory for mainland Europe.)
It looks
like the border control measures – which Italy said would only
be carried in a “targeted” way and apply to third-country nationals travelling
by air and sea – are expected to be in place for a month, until 1
September.
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