More extraordinary than the EU Interior Ministers’ meeting itself taking place today after the Ceuta crisis is the political escalation that precedes it. The crisis between Italy and Spain has not only not eased but continues to intensify with unprecedented harshness.

The migration crisis that has erupted again in Ceuta, this time with a flood of more than 40,000 people according to initial estimates, and already with about twenty deaths, “has its origin in an interpretation of the Supreme Court’s decision, which prohibits the return of people who enter by swimming, which has been exploited by mafias and criminal organizations to take advantage of the extreme vulnerability of migrants.”

Alberto Núñez Feijóo on Wednesday reviewed the political year that has ended and declared the legislature over at a time when the government’s weakness in Congress practically prevents the approval of laws and corruption cases surround Pedro Sánchez’s political and personal circle. In response, the PP leader promised a “national reconstruction” government that would restore “decency” to Spain, make the country “work again” with economic and social reforms, and ensure that “working is worthwhile.”

José Luis Ábalos has presented his defense as if he were facing a murder charge: no body, no crime. Where is all the money they accuse him of hiding? It has not appeared and as he has defended before the prosecutor, they can “pawn” but they will not find it for a very simple reason. According to the former minister, it will not surface because it does not exist.