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Key points
- Twenty-two EU leaders requested an emergency videoconference of interior ministers to coordinate the bloc’s response to migrant arrivals in Ceuta.
- The signatories said they were seriously concerned and would consider temporary internal border controls among measures to address perceived migration and security risks.
- Spain said almost all of roughly 50,000 people who crossed from Morocco into Ceuta on Thursday had been returned.
- Emmanuel Macron, Luís Montenegro and Luc Frieden did not sign the letter addressed to Ursula von der Leyen, António Costa and Micheál Martin.
- Pedro Sánchez accused some EU countries of responding unevenly, after Spain faced calls to be temporarily excluded from the Schengen travel area.
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Sánchez sent von der Leyen a letter seeking stronger European solidarity, while 22 EU countries separately requested emergency talks on the Ceuta crisis.
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Twenty-two EU leaders called for an emergency interior ministers’ meeting, while Pedro Sánchez criticized what he described as an uneven response to the Ceuta crisis.