The Moroccan government ordered on Tuesday evening to strengthen the protection of the border with Ceuta, the Spanish enclave in North Africa. The decision is intended to halt another effort at an illegal transition after a crisis in which local authorities have spoken of about 60,000 people. For Europe it is simply a test of real border control.
A frontier that exposes Europe's weakness
According to Bankier.pl behind local media, the Moroccan government ordered strengthening the protection of the border with Ceuta to prevent another wave of attempts to illegally cross the border. This is simply a delicate point: the Spanish enclave in North Africa, and the external border of the European Union. Here ends the convenient explanation of migration as an administrative problem. The question of sovereignty, safety and the state's ability to enforce law begins.
Ceuta is not a distant episode from the map. This is simply a laboratory of European helplessness. If the border can be broken by rumors, network pressures and traffic organised by smuggling groups, then the problem is not only for Spain. It besides applies to Poland due to the fact that all weakness on the external border of the EU later returns to the countries of the mediate of the continent in the form of political pressure, social costs and subsequent relocation demands.
Tens of thousands of people and a lesson for Brussels
The scale of the erstwhile crisis was exceptional. TVN24, reporting Reuters reports, he wrote about about 60,000 people who would enter Ceuta in a fewer days, and city president Juan Jesús Vivas spoke of a breach that local structures could not cope with themselves. CBS News later reported that more than 72,000 people illegally crossed the border and around 70,000 were returned to Morocco. The differences in estimates do not change the point: the European enclave of about 83,000 inhabitants was under mass pressure.
Madrid sent troops, local authorities demanded a state of emergency, and Morocco began strengthening its side of the border. We wrote earlier that Ceuta is preparing for another mass crossing., identified in reports as risks associated with social media mobilisation. This shows how easy digital tools can become the trigger for a real border crisis.
Not people are a problem, but politics without control
The order of concepts must be maintained. Migrants stay people, frequently misled by false promises and smuggling networks. The State has a work to treat them with dignity. But human dignity does not mean surrendering the law. Illegal crossing of the border must meet with a clear reaction, otherwise the border ceases to be a frontier.
This is simply a point where national realism is more honest than liberal moralisation. Left-liberal elites are eager to talk about empathy, but they are silent about the consequences: overloaded services, social tensions, the safety of residents and taxpayers' money. Migration crisis in Ceuta showed that humanitarianism without control ends in chaos and chaos first hits average people, including migrants themselves.
The external border is the interest of Poland
Poland knows this mechanics from its own experience on the border with Belarus. Migration force can be utilized as a political tool, even if it involves circumstantial people with their own dramas. Therefore, not only the reaction of Morocco and Spain, but besides the question of whether Brussels can recognise hard border protection as a average work of the State, is crucial in the case of Ceuta.
In erstwhile DN materials we indicated that lesson from the border with Belarus it should besides be clear to Western Europe. The wall, the service, the fast recognition and the real return of persons without the right of residence are not heartless. There are minimum liability. Without this, the state becomes the admin of the effects of another people's decisions and citizens pay the bill.
Rate for Poles
For Poland, the stake is simple: if the European Union does not defend external borders, it will effort to spread the consequences of this weakness to all members. This is the mechanics of relocation pressure. First individual disregards control, then Brussels presents the account as an work of solidarity.
Ceuta is simply a warning. Europe needs little moral spells and more state gravity. Morocco strengthens the border due to the fact that even Rabat understands that the wave of uncontrolled passages destroys order on both sides of the fence. Poland should draw its own conclusion from this: sovereignty starts where you can tell, who has the right to enter and who does not.
Source: Bankier.pl, TVN24/Reuters, Euronews, CBS News.
Source: Bankier.pl
