Feijóo promises an investigation into Ceuta and urges Brussels to activate the urgent returns mechanism this year

The president of the Popular Party does not give up in his efforts to ensure that the Ceuta crisis continues at the forefront of conversations between European leaders. Before the summit of the European People's Party (EPP) prior to the holding of the European Council, Alberto Núñez Feijóo has made promises if he reaches Moncloa but he has also extracted commitments from the president of the European Commission (EC), Ursula von der Leyen.

The popular leader has promised to undertake an investigation if he reaches the Government into what happened on July 30 and 31 in the autonomous city and to report the content of said investigations to Brussels because "the more time passes, the more questions arise about what really happened." Likewise, he has announced that Brussels will activate the emergency mechanism against massive arrivals before the end of this year.

The new procedure provides for accelerating expulsions in situations of exceptional migratory pressure and contemplates the possibility of temporarily suspending the ordinary asylum procedure in case of "instrumentalization" of immigration, as considered by the EPP that Morocco made in July. "It has been an explicit request from the Spanish PP that has been included in this year's agenda of the European Union," he celebrated. In this sense, with the approval of said urgent mechanism at the end of 2026, if it reaches Moncloa, it has committed to return all the people who still remain in Spanish territory irregularly after the assault, some 10,000 according to estimates. Feijóo has also demanded permanent presence of Frontex and Europol in the autonomous cities before his European colleagues because the Old Continent must protect its borders and "have a presence throughout its territory."