Ceuta Is Just the Beginning: Europe Faces an Existential Test | Dr. Eitan Lesri

The mass breach in Ceuta exposed a destructive combination of disconnected domestic policies, demographic erosion, and a threat to EU institutions. The article criticizes Sánchez's policies and the disintegration of Schengen, and calls for tightening borders and structural reforms.

The article, by Dr. Eitan Lesri, analyzes the mass influx of migrants from Morocco into Ceuta, the Spanish enclave in North Africa, as an existential test for Europe. He argues that the event revealed a destructive combination of domestic policies disconnected from operational reality, demographic erosion, and a threat to European foundational institutions. The article criticizes the liberal policies of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and the disintegration of the 'Schengen Agreement' under the leadership of Ursula von der Leyen. It notes a demographic paradox of structural erosion and failure in absorption, and highlights the geopolitical implications and lessons for Israel. In conclusion, it calls for a shift from humanitarian declarations to active measures of tightening borders, restoring deterrence, and implementing structural reforms, otherwise the European Union will continue to lose its strategic backbone and the trust of its citizens.