Tag: Ceuta
Stamping out the ‘Class A drugs post’ peril
Injected into silicone breasts and surgically implanted into defenceless puppies – the Class A Drugs ‘delivery service’ is becoming increasingly deadly as traffickers seek horrific new ways to smuggle contraband into Europe, using Spain as their back door. But it’s a ‘smug’s game’, reports Tom Powell
Spanish government under fire for failing poverty-stricken children
Planned funds are just 0.18% of what is really needed
EU grants €10 million to fight immigration at Spain’s borders
Spain is bearing the brunt of immigration from Africa into Europe
A migrant’s tale
War and poverty drive people from Africa towards the freedom of European soil. Imogen Calderwood went to Ceuta and Morocco to see the reality
Pressures escalate at Spanish-Melilla border
Waves of sub-Saharan migrants have attempted to break through onto European soil this week
Spain: Rubber bullets should not have been fired
Interior minister admits for the first time police were wrong to use rubber bullets
Spain to fortify North African borders to deter more migrants
The Spanish government has announced a €2.3 million plan to fortify the borders of Ceuta and Melilla
Spanish police stop more than a thousand migrants crossing Ceuta border
Police have stopped a second wave of 1,600 migrants at the Ceuta border
African migrants carry out massive storm of Spanish enclave Melilla
More than 200 Sub-Saharan migrants have scaled border fences into Melilla
EU: Spain must explain why it fired rubber bullets at migrants
Spain's interior minister insisted police did not shoot directly at people, and that the bullets had not caused the deaths of any of those who drowned
‘Syria jihadist suspects’ arrested in Ceuta
Eight individuals have been detained on suspicion of recruiting jihadist would-be fighters to send to Syria
How did those 690 kilos of hash get in my van? asks Spanish councillor
The former politician was arrested in Ceuta as he was about to get on the ferry to Algeciras
Protesters clash with police over unpaid wages at Gibraltar border
Over 200 municipal workers are on strike in an ongoing dispute over pay
Big fine for Spanish ferry fixers
Three companies were found guilty of price fixing by the National Competition Committee
The geography and politics of Spain
Whilst the history of Spain is long and complicated, the geography and political set-up are fairly straightforward. Paul Whitelock takes a look.