Madrid (Spain), 8 Aug. (LaPresse) – “Sánchez and Meloni are dragging Europe towards a historic rift with reciprocal checks on travellers from Spain and Italy, in their clash over the Ceuta crisis.” This is what the Spanish daily El Mundo writes today following the clash between Rome and Madrid over border controls in the wake of the mass arrival of migrants in the Spanish enclave. “The escalation of tension between Pedro Sánchez and Giorgia Meloni – or between Meloni and Sánchez, given that she was the first to adopt a coercive measure against Madrid – has led Spain and Italy to mutually reintroduce checks on citizens from the other country arriving at airports or ports,” writes the Spanish daily, emphasising that the Spanish Prime Minister and the Italian Prime Minister – representatives of opposing ideological currents in Brussels – have found their ultimate point of contention in the Ceuta crisis. “This disagreement is not unrelated to the precarious domestic situations facing both leaders. In Sánchez’s case, it stems from his low approval ratings and doubts about his handling of the current crisis and his ability to anticipate it. In Meloni’s case, it is due to the fact that, with a year to go before the re-election, she finds herself facing competition from the right.” “For these reasons, the migration crisis in the autonomous city has helped to accentuate the polarisation between the two. And their respective offensives,” notes El Mundo, “are ultimately dragging the EU into a historic rift, because they are shaking a fundamental pillar of the EU’s structure: free movement and the scope of European citizenship.”
Migrants: El Mundo – Sánchez and Meloni are driving Europe towards a historic rift
Madrid (Spain), 8 Aug. (LaPresse) – “Sánchez and Meloni are dragging Europe towards a historic rift with reciprocal checks on travellers from Spain and Italy, in their clash over the Ceuta crisis.” This is what the Spanish daily El Mundo writes today following the clash between Rome and Madrid over border controls in the wake of the mass arrival of migrants in the Spanish enclave. “The escalation of tension between Pedro Sánchez and Giorgia Meloni – or between Meloni and Sánchez, given that she was the first to adopt a coercive measure against Madrid – has led Spain and Italy to mutually reintroduce checks on citizens from the other country arriving at airports or ports,” writes the Spanish daily, emphasising that the Spanish Prime Minister and the Italian Prime Minister – representatives of opposing ideological currents in Brussels – have found their ultimate point of contention in the Ceuta crisis. “This disagreement is not unrelated to the precarious domestic situations facing both leaders. In Sánchez’s case, it stems from his low approval ratings and doubts about his handling of the current crisis and his ability to anticipate it. In Meloni’s case, it is due to the fact that, with a year to go before the re-election, she finds herself facing competition from the right.” “For these reasons, the migration crisis in the autonomous city has helped to accentuate the polarisation between the two. And their respective offensives,” notes El Mundo, “are ultimately dragging the EU into a historic rift, because they are shaking a fundamental pillar of the EU’s structure: free movement and the scope of European citizenship.”