The events at Ceuta ​show ​how Europe’s ​hard ​right ​now ​set the ​tone​ on immigration

The narratives of the right are seeping into mainstream EU policy, and Spain finds itself increasingly isolated in its humanitarian stance on borders • Don’t get This Is Europe delivered to your inbox? Sign up here It was over almost as quickly as it began. But the human cost of the mayhem in Ceuta over the last seven days, and the disunity it exposed within the EU, will take a lot longer to fix. To recap: more than 70,000 people swam or waded into the tiny Spanish enclave in north Africa fro...

By Katherine Butler associate editor, Europe