Published on 01/08/2026 – 17:10 GMT+2 Hamburg celebrated its annual Pride event, one of Germany’s biggest, with increased security on Saturday, one week after a deadly attack near Berlin’s pride parade that shocked the country. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Organisers expected around 250,000 people to attend the parade, which this year has…

Published on 01/08/2026 – 14:03 GMT+2 Almost all of the estimated 60,000 migrants who entered Spain’s Ceuta enclave have returned to Morocco, Spanish officials said on Saturday. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT “The situation has been almost entirely reversed,” Spain’s interior minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska told reporters. Under the watch of Spanish soldiers and…

Published on 01/08/2026 – 14:30 GMT+2•Updated 14:34 After around 60,000 irregular migrants entered the Ceuta Spanish enclave in North Africa, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said this Saturday that “the vast majority of those who arrived illegally have returned to Morocco.” ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT She held a conference call…

Published on 01/08/2026 – 14:05 GMT+2 Leaders from 22 European Union nations have called for an emergency meeting to discuss the bloc’s response to the arrival of tens of thousands of migrants in the Spanish exclave of Ceuta in North Africa this week. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT In the letter, which sources…

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has lamented what he describes as a lack of European solidarity over the Ceuta crisis in a letter to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, in which he points to misinformation, prejudice and petty politics. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The letter, sent on Saturday and seen…

Published on 01/08/2026 – 9:27 GMT+2 Russian strikes on Kyiv overnight killed at least nine people and injured more than 30 others in what city mayor Vitali Klitschko called a “horrific night” for the capital. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT According to Klitschko, Russia launched a wave of ballistic missiles at Kyiv, causing…

Italy caused a stir when it called to shut Spain out of the EU’s visa-free Schengen travel zone after the Spanish enclave of Ceuta in Morocco was overwhelmed this week by more than 60,000 migrant arrivals. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT This crisis is the largest surge of irregular arrivals ever recorded on…

Published on 01/08/2026 – 9:51 GMT+2 As around 60,000 migrants irregularly entered the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, Several EU countries are asking for Spain to be temporarily excluded from the free-movement Schengen area, a last-resort measure that could only be used in exceptional circumstances. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The largest surge of…

Europeans have spent the last year and a half urging Washington to use its financial power to impose severe sanctions on Russia. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT They may soon find themselves regretting that appeal. A draft bill making its way through the US Senate, ostensibly designed to cripple Moscow’s war chest, risks…

European right-wing figures blame the escalation in the Ceuta enclave on Spain’s naturalisation policy, in what left-wing parties call opportunistic attacks. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT On Thursday, thousands of migrants stormed the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, prompting Spain’s Interior Ministry to declare a national emergency and mobilise troops to restore order in…