Thousands of Migrants Remain in Ceuta After Mass Border Crossing

Spain's Ceuta enclave still holds 3,000-5,000 migrants after roughly 78,000 people crossed from Morocco in a single day, an incident that left 100 dead and nearly 5,000 unaccompanied children unaccounted for by official figures. The crisis has fractured EU cohesion, with Italy, Finland and Denmark suspending Schengen arrangements with Spain and the Czech Republic calling for its suspension from the open-border zone, while Brussels weighs using trade and visa leverage against Morocco. The episode illustrates how mass, sudden migration pressure can strain national sovereignty and open-border agreements, accelerating pressure for centralised EU border and migration authority.