News Summary

• Europe cannot ethically base its economy on the availability of cheap migrant labour while demonising those who seek better lives.
• Many of the more than 2,000 who remain are from sub-Saharan countries such as Mali and Somalia and the war-torn regions in Sudan.
• The situation in Ceuta involves often-tense relations between Morocco and Spain, online disinformation campaigns and despair among Morocco’s youth.
• The recent regularisation of illegal migrants in Spain was one of the pull factors cited as a possible cause of the influx.