EU commits €115 million to Spain after Ceuta migrant crisis
Emergency funding will support border security and migrant returns after a reported mass crossing from Morocco left scores dead.
The European Union said on Wednesday it would grant Spain €115 million in emergency aid following a mass migrant arrival in Ceuta, the Spanish territory on North Africa’s coast bordering Morocco.
The funding is intended to strengthen border security and assist with migrant returns. The EU did not specify when the money would be disbursed or how it would be administered.
More than 70,000 migrants reportedly crossed from Morocco into Ceuta on 30 and 31 July, in what France 24 described as an unprecedented rush into Spanish territory.
Scores of people reportedly died, most while attempting to swim around a breakwater. The arrival and death figures are reported estimates and have not been independently corroborated in the supplied material.
The aid links the EU’s emergency response to two immediate policy priorities: managing the external border and returning migrants after a large-scale arrival.
