Amid the chaos in Spain (60,000 arrivals, 48,000 already returned), two forms of demagoguery are emerging: the self-defeating stance of closure (‘what if this happened to us?’), and the folly of denial (‘problems aren’t solved: they’re denied’). But there is a solution: more Europe

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

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"