Summer was deadly at the land border between the European Union and Africa. The sudden arrival of tens of thousands of migrants in Ceuta caught the Spanish authorities by surprise and overwhelmed them, in late July.
The reaction of the European Christian Democratic family (EPP), of which the Spanish Partido Popular (PP), allied with the far-right party Vox, is a member, was immediate: the regularisation policy of Pedro Sánchez’s Socialist government, which is said to create a ‘pull...