Overview
- Spanish foreign minister José Manuel Albares said Morocco gave guarantees this week to take measures to prevent a repeat of the late‑July mass crossing into Ceuta, and Madrid has increased Guardia Civil GRS deployments on the land borders.
- The Spanish government has launched formal procedures to extend the Tarajal breakwater at Ceuta with an estimated cost of €7 million and will replace the emergency floating barrier with a longer, anti‑climb structure.
- Authorities report that 6,791 people returned voluntarily from Ceuta to Morocco between August 10 and September 22, including 1,309 in the last reported week, while thousands remain housed in crowded temporary sites and some minors face prolonged stays.
- Judicial pressure on the Sánchez government intensified as Madrid’s Juzgado nº41 sent Begoña Gómez to oral trial on influence‑peddling and embezzlement charges, and the judicial council recorded 37 sexual‑assault proceedings opened in Ceuta courts since July 30.
- In New York, President Javier Milei defended his economic program to investors and, with US officials, unveiled the Corredor Andes‑Atlántico to mobilize up to $7 billion to 2027 for energy, transport and port projects while Argentina’s Senate modified the BCRA reform and sent it back to the lower house for revision.