Unpacking Europe: Ceuta and Schengen

09 September 2026

On this week’s Unpacking Europe podcast, Ian Bond, deputy director of the Centre for European Reform sat down with Camino Mortera-Martinez, an associate fellow at the CER, to discuss the impact that 80,000 migrants crossing from Morocco to the Spanish exclave of Ceuta has had on the EU’s borderless Schengen area. 

They took a detailed look at impact this crisis has had on relations within the EU’s member-states, the status of Ceuta, the importance of the Schengen area and how to restore trust between Schengen member-states.

 

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