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Spain Unveils New Migration Strategy

Emily Cartwright

Spain Unveils New Migration Strategy: Return Everyone Before Brussels Has to Write Their Names Down Madrid discovers that the fastest asylum procedure is the one completed before anybody can locate the application form MADRID, SPAIN — Spain unveils an ambitious new migration policy Friday after the crisis reported by the New York Times brings roughly 60,000 migrants across the Moroccan border into Ceuta, a Spanish city of approximately 85,000 residents. The new…

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Spain Offers Amnesty to One Million Undocumented Migrants

Isabel Navarro

Spain Offers Amnesty to One Million Undocumented Migrants, Discovers the Waiting Room Has a Border Sánchez government insists Spain has not been overrun, merely become extremely popular without reservations MADRID, SPAIN — Spain’s government has rejected suggestions that the country’s migration system is overwhelmed after more than one million undocumented migrants and asylum seekers applied for regularisation, shortly before 50,000 to 60,000 people crossed from Morocco into the Spanish enclave…

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Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez

Yasmina Khan

MADRID, Spain — Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez found himself increasingly isolated Saturday after roughly 50,000 migrants entered Ceuta, apparently mistaking years of progressive political language for practical travel instructions. The crisis, first detailed by Bloomberg and later confirmed in reporting from CNN and the Irish Times, has alarmed European governments that strongly support humane migration policies, particularly when implemented by another government several hundred kilometres away. Sánchez has long presented himself as Europe’s compassionate alternative…

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Europe’s New Tourism Strategy

Alan Nafzger

Europe Announces Bold New Tourism Strategy: “Scare Away Americans, Then Ask Why Hotels Are Empty” Tourism officials across Europe recently unveiled a travel advisory masterpiece so complex it appears to have been written by a committee of bureaucrats, three consultants, and a printer that only outputs paperwork. The result is the EU Entry/Exit System (EES) — a gleaming monument to the continent’s unshakeable belief that the solution to every problem…