Abdellatif Hammouchi, the man who could have prevented the assault on Ceuta
Abdellatif Hammouchi: his name may sound unfamiliar to many, but it is actually easy to find occasional news about him in the archives. He is one of the men…
Mohamed VI
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The Moor smells weakness and has sensed the Government’s decay
The old soldiers used to say that ‘the Moor’ smells weakness. Both from friend and foe. (God save me from my friends, let alone…). What he has indeed caught…
Ceuta worsens the distance between Moncloa and Zarzuela: the request for a call to “thank” Mohamed VI, another controversy during a crisis
The unprecedented migration crisis unleashed in Ceuta following the massive entry of 80,000 people through the maritime border with Morocco has exposed a…
Mohamed VI, luxury summer vacation in his favorite residence a stone’s throw from Ceuta
A few days before an avalanche of tens of thousands of desperate people entered Ceuta causing the biggest crisis in the recent history of the city…
King Felipe VI should not be pushed to act as a tightrope walker in Ceuta
The reign of Felipe VI has been forged through crises. It is not usual in parliamentary monarchies of established democracies for their holders to be compelled…
Triple response from Felipe VI to the Ceuta crisis: maximum support for Vivas; respect and firmness towards Morocco
The violation of the territorial integrity of Ceuta last week has kept the Head of State worried, tense, and powerless due to the prudence with which it must…
Anchors of foreign action
The foreign action of a State does not lie in having opinions about the world. It consists of ordering priorities within channels of continuity. Governments change; majorities…
The old claim of Morocco over the “occupied” Ceuta and Melilla fuels the narrative of the reign of Mohamed VI
As if in Ceuta there was not a flood crossing the Moroccan border in an “attack on the integrity of Spain,” in the words of Pedro Sánchez, at such…
“A Morocco got out of hand”: the first analyses on the Ceuta avalanche point to Rabat
The swim crossing at El Tarajal was a constant trickle of people since the summer began. Eight, nine, or 10 individuals arrived daily at the Ceuta coast, something to…
The Moroccan avalanche unleashes a European crisis in Spain: Italy calls to close Schengen, France strengthens the border, and Finland reacts
The massive crossing of migrants at the border between Ceuta and Morocco has already gone beyond the national level and has become a European problem. And far from showing unity, the…