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This article was written by the editors and appeared in La Verdad de Ceuta. VOX acusa a Sánchez de favorecer a Marruecos y critica al PP europeo por frenar una investigación sobre la crisis de Ceuta.
Featuring Hermann Tertsch, Distinguished Fellow (Honorary), Gold Institute for International Strategy
VOX has once again denounced, in the European institutions, the Spanish Government’s handling of the migration crisis in Ceuta at the end of July. MEP Hermann Tertsch spoke in a European Parliament debate on the Pact for the Mediterranean to criticize the absence of any reference to the autonomous city and to accuse Pedro Sánchez’s government of favoring Morocco’s interests.
During his speech, Tertsch described the events of July as the “worst attack ever suffered by a border of the European Union” and lamented that the text under debate made no reference to Ceuta. The MEP maintained that what happened constitutes “the greatest act of aggression in the Mediterranean since the Turkish occupation of Cyprus in 1974.”
The VOX representative also reproached the EU institutions for their response to Morocco, which he accused of receiving European funding and concessions to the detriment of Spain.
Criticism of the Sánchez Government
The party holds the central government responsible for the situation that, it maintains, Ceuta has been going through since the summer’s migration crisis. In its statement, VOX denounces security problems and pressure on public services that, in its view, make citizens’ daily lives difficult.
Tertsch aimed his criticism at the Prime Minister with a direct accusation: “The worst part is that Morocco’s supreme lobbyist is the Spanish Government of the traitor Sánchez, which decisively helped in that invasion.”
The statements are part of VOX’s strategy of taking its criticism of the handling of the crisis to the European institutions and calling for more restrictive migration measures.
Criticism of the European People’s Party
The MEP also criticized the European People’s Party for blocking, according to VOX, a committee of inquiry into the events in Ceuta proposed by the Patriots for Europe group. The party says the initiative was rejected last week in the European Parliament’s Conference of Presidents, with the PP and the left-wing groups voting against.
VOX considers that the decision prevents clarifying what happened during the crisis and demands greater involvement of the EU institutions in protecting the European Union’s external borders.
In this regard, Tertsch defended a tightening of European migration policy and called for “secure borders and urgent remigration,” a term the party uses to advocate the return of immigrants.
Read the full article at La Verdad de Ceuta
Hermann Tertsch is a Distinguished Fellow at the Gold Institute for International Strategy, a Washington, D.C. foreign policy and defense think tank.
