Migration
Arrivals, housing, decisions, returns. Capacity is a number.
The Commission wants Frontex to run Europe's deportations, even from outside the EU. It is the right idea and a confession: for years four in five orders to leave were ignored. Now capitals must decide whether to pay for it, after one presidency draft halved the money.
Rome and Madrid ended their three-month border spat over Ceuta with a phone call. The Commission’s own list shows eight Schengen states still running “last resort” checks, some citing a beach in North Africa. The fault lies at the outer border, not in the capitals.
The EU’s migration pact had applied for seven weeks when Ceuta was overwhelmed. Now capitals are weighing three options for an emergency plan that may not even be law. Spain is doing the actual work. Brussels should let border states pull the brake.
