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The real question what Spain 🇪🇸 is doing In northern Morocco 🇲🇦???? Moroccans are simply entering Moroccan colonized lands

Sweden has announced that they’re sending troops to Greenland.. This is the Swedish military. Lmao

Shocking images of massive and uncontrolled arrivals of illegal migrants at the Spanish border today. Uncontrolled borders demand immediate action. The EU Migration Pact and the Return Regulation can’t wait. We urge Spain to act NOW to secure our external borders and the European Commission to take appropriate action. The EPP Group will demand answers at the next plenary session.

De horribla scener som utspelat sig i Ceuta är svåra att smälta. Det är inte värdigt en union som EU, varken ur ett säkerhetsmässigt eller ett humanitärt perspektiv. Jag har i kontakt med min spanska kollega uttryckt oro för händelseutvecklingen vid gränsen och understrukit behovet av skyndsamma åtgärder för att återfå kontrollen. Uppgifter om att många nu frivilligt återvänder till Marocko är ett försiktigt positivt tecken. Regeringen står samtidigt redo att vidta de åtgärder som krävs för att värna ordning och kontroll – för att 2015 aldrig ska upprepas.

Some people are asking why Spain still possesses territory in North Africa. A better question might be why North Africa is now Muslim and predominantly Arab. The Mediterranean coast of North Africa was part of the Roman Empire. During the early centuries of Christianity, the region became such a stronghold of the faith that one historian described it as the “Bible Belt” of the ancient world. Three popes came from North Africa, and Latin became the dominant language in urban areas. This strong community of Christians in North African actually contributed significantly to the early spread of the faith into the Iberian Peninsula. The character of the region began to change after Muslim Arab armies conquered the region in the seventh century. Those same forces also crossed into Europe, with the Moors conquering most of the Iberian Peninsula. Christianity survived in North Africa for several centuries but steadily declined as Christians faced forced conversion, persecution, and exile. Spanish and Portuguese efforts to recover territory in North Africa met with limited success. One notable exception was Ceuta, which Portugal captured in 1415. Ceuta held an important strategic location, as it had been a base used to launch the attacks on Spain and Portugal that led to the long subjugation by Muslims there. After its conquest by Portugal, Ceuta again became overwhelmingly Christian. It later came under the Spanish Crown in the late 16th century. Morocco besieged the city from 1694 to 1727 in one of the longest sieges in history, but Spain retained control. Since Morocco gained independence in 1956, it has continued to dispute Spanish sovereignty over the territory. Over the centuries, Muslims gradually returned to Ceuta. Economic migration, combined with higher birth rates among the city’s Muslim population, has substantially changed its demographics. Today, Muslims make up roughly half of Ceuta’s population. Looking at the last 2,100 years of Ceuta’s history, the city has spent considerably more time as part of the Christian European world than under Arab-Muslim rule. It has never been part of the modern Kingdom of Morocco. The claim that Muslim-majority Morocco has an inherent right to Ceuta because it is located in North Africa ignores the greater part of the region’s history.

Ceuta and Melilla were never part of Morocco. They were Roman settlements that were after controlled by Portugal and finally Spain. All of this happened before Morocco even existed.