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MADRID — About 80,000 African migrants are
heading for Spain’s two enclaves along the Moroccan coast, leaving Spain
struggling to contain the efforts that are coming in larger and increasingly
coordinated surges in recent days.
The Spanish interior minister, Jorge
Fernández Díaz, said Thursday that the situation at the enclaves, Ceuta and
Melilla, was a problem not only for Spain, but for all of Europe, and needed to
be handled “in cooperation with the European Union.”
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At a European Union ministerial meeting on
Monday, he called on Spain’s partners in the bloc to provide 45 million euros,
or $62 million, to help Spain reinforce its border security around the
enclaves.
