Política

Dozens of Ceuta residents stormed the Trampolín beach this Thursday and destroyed and burned the improvised migrant camp set up in the area.

The Government, that is, Pedro Sánchez, has already broken the tie in the war of versions between the Minister of Defense, Margarita Robles, and the head of the Interior portfolio, Fernando Grande-Marlaska. He has done so in favor of the latter. The press release from the Government delegation in…

Wednesday’s great flood on the Nepal-Tibet border has already left hundreds dead and over a thousand missing, including many foreigners. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs currently has no record of any fatalities, but does count four missing Spaniards who have not been located.

Ceuta is a pressure cooker. The atmosphere that permeated this Wednesday’s massive mobilization against the crisis management suggests it could explode. Thousands of Ceutans, with the Spanish flag as a common denominator, gathered late in the afternoon in front of the Government Delegation – where the sole commander, Minister Ángel Víctor Torres, was located – to clamor for their city, “which is not for sale, but defended.” Weariness is giving way to anger. Concern to exasperation. “Invaders [referring to the immigrants who entered in an avalanche], expulsion,” chanted the majority. “Go get them,” shouted the minority, while running after some North Africans who are still wandering the streets.

The Government of Pedro Sánchez passed the summer examination of the Congress’s Permanent Deputation this Wednesday without a numerical blemish. The official record will reflect a clean plenary session, with zero lost votes for the investiture bloc and the withdrawal by the PP of the request to force the president’s appearance, after Moncloa previously announced that Sánchez would appear on his own initiative. But the political storm has run through underground waters. Just weeks before a decisive political year begins, with the negotiation of the general budgets on the horizon and the call for elections increasingly close, the investiture partners have taken advantage of the parliamentary return to remind the Executive that what they granted at the beginning of the legislature is not a blank check.

The sale of the luxury penthouse acquired by the Community of Madrid has not quelled the controversy; on the contrary, it has fueled it. Every new detail about the purchase process calls into question the structure of the official narrative offered so far by the Government of Isabel Díaz Ayuso. The latest revelation places the origin of the operation months before the signing. According to El País, between January and March of this year, Planifica Madrid was tasked with finding an apartment between 250 and 400 square meters with “a large terrace” in Chamberí or its surroundings. At no point in that assignment was it specified that the property had to house offices or workspaces. The penthouse that the public company would end up buying on April 14 had been listed since January 31 for 6.6 million euros.

At least ten autonomous communities will attend this Thursday, August 27, the Sectoral Conference on Childhood and Adolescence, which will address the extraordinary credit of 25 million euros intended for the care of migrant minors in Ceuta, following the massive arrival of foreigners on July 30, as well as the possible distribution among the autonomous communities of these minors. And, for now, three others have confirmed that they will be absent from the meeting: Castilla y León, Extremadura, and Aragón, while the Balearic Islands, the Community of Madrid, and La Rioja have, for the moment, avoided confirming their presence.

As announced a few weeks ago, Junts per Catalunya has once again submitted this Wednesday in Congress the bill to delegate immigration-related powers to the Generalitat that it agreed with the PSOE last year and that was rejected in September 2025 by the votes of the PP, Vox, Podemos, and two deputies from Sumar. The post-convergence party thus recovers an initiative they consider a current commitment with the socialists, doing so amid the migration crisis in Ceuta, while maintaining their rejection that Catalonia should have to host minors who have recently arrived in the autonomous city.

The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, will finally appear before the Plenary of the Congress on September 3 to report on the Government’s management of the migration crisis in Ceuta, following the serious incidents recorded since July 30. The setting of the date culminates an undisguised standoff in the Board of Spokespersons, where the initial intention of La Moncloa — which requested to set the appearance for the 9th — clashed with the pressure from several parliamentary groups, led by the PNV. Jeltzale sources have demanded that the meeting be “immediate” and “without the need to reschedule already planned appearances,” once the “situation of interest for national security” in the autonomous city was declared.

The royal decree approved this Tuesday by the Council of Ministers and published this Wednesday in the Official State Gazette (BOE) that declares the “situation of interest for national security in the city of Ceuta,” with a single command and crisis committee, which will initially be in effect until December 31, does not imply an assumption of the limited powers of the autonomous city by the central Government. In other words, far from implying a kind of intervention, like that which would be entailed by the application of article 155 of the Constitution, the Government maintains the constitutionally and statutorily established powers but assumes control of the management of the material and human resources necessary to resolve the crisis.