Europe to hold meeting Tuesday over Ceuta after migration flux

Spain has installed a five-hundred-metre sea barrier between its North African enclave of Ceuta and Morocco, after tens of thousands of migrants attempted to cross the border earlier this week — an attempt in which at least sixty-seven people died. France 24 reports that while most who made it across quickly returned to Morocco, the incident has reignited the immigration debate across Europe and beyond. The EU is due to hold an emergency video conference on the situation on Tuesday.

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