“The centre-left has become something else entirely: if you were to take the Olive Tree coalition’s 1996 manifesto, today it would seem like blasphemy to a broad coalition influenced by the extremes. The same applies to the right: the former general is incompatible with liberal values,” says the MP. “In Ceuta, we are witnessing Morocco’s blackmail in action.”

Whilst the United Kingdom may defend Gibraltar on the grounds of its presence on the territory and the will of the population, Rabat is calling for the same treatment for Ceuta and Melilla. Trump’s irritation and US statements regarding the Spanish-administered cities “located on Moroccan territory”

Palazzo Chigi is calling for a suspension of the Schengen Code, but the exclave’s special status and forty years of reinstatements never before used against another Member State point to the uncertain prospects for this initiative

On the one hand, there are those, such as France, who would simply like to tighten border controls; on the other, however, Austria, Denmark and Finland support Meloni’s initiative. European governments face the migration crisis in the Spanish exclave 

Seven thousand minors among the new arrivals, eighteen bodies recovered from the sea, the Spanish army deployed to support the Civil Guard: whilst Sánchez negotiates repatriations with Rabat, four hundred people also managed to enter Melilla overnight: "knock-on effect"