EU Parliament sends LIBE delegation to Ceuta to assess post-invasion situation

In response to the July border incursion, the LIBE committee of the European Parliament will conduct a field mission to Ceuta over three days in mid-November. The team aims to assess the continuing challenges faced by the autonomous city, meeting with municipal and national officials, security forces, civil-society groups and other actors handling the crisis. The mission follows an extraordinary LIBE meeting where the EU interior commissioner and Ceuta’s mayor discussed the situation, and where 22 EU heads of state urged a unified European reaction.

A recent European Parliament resolution condemned the attack and implicated Morocco, while the European People’s Party adopted a stance describing the events as a "hybrid war" and called for the expulsion of migrants. Committee chair Javier Zarzalejos emphasized that the visit underscores the EU’s view of the incident as a broader security issue, not merely a Spanish matter.