The EU’s walls have crumbled – how long before some of this influx hits the UK?

The disaster in Spanish North Africa explained, with its implications for the UK

Ceuta’s youth unemployment is the highest in the EU, so they won’t stay there

The tens of thousands of illegal migrants who flooded across the border from the North African country of Morocco to the Spanish enclave of Ceuta will come as no surprise to regular readers. The Spanish simply don’t know how many are now left.

Stand for Our Sovereignty in collaboration with the think-tank Brexit Facts4EU and The Campaign for an Independent Britain, provides further information on this disturbing event, with its ramifications for the UK. This report has been shared exclusively with GB News.

This has all taken place in the EU – which includes Ceuta

Despite being on the African continent, Ceuta is part of the territory of the European Union. It is perhaps informative of the opinion of its residents that its sole member of the Congress of Deputies (the Spanish Parliament’s lower house) is from the anti-immigration Vox party. She gained her seat in the 2019 general election.

Vox holds opposing policies to those of the ruling coalition government led by the Socialist Workers Party (PSOE), which practically has an open borders policy. This has been most recently demonstrated by its disastrous amnesty for illegal migrants. The government told the Spanish people to expect 500,000. The latest official figures show more than 1.2m have applied, and this is just the tip of the iceberg.

The majority of applicants for the amnesty are male and six out of ten (59.4%) are under 34

Given this completely lax attitude to illegal migrants, is it any wonder the EU’s borders in Spanish Ceuta were overwhelmed? The question now is that of those who remain in the EU, how many will make their way to the United Kingdom?

The writing has been on the (now breached) wall for years

In 2019 in the days of Theresa May as PM, when she was doing her best to water down Brexit until it was almost unrecogonisable, Facts4EU published an interesting official statistic about Ceuta for 2018.

We showed how Ceuta had the largest youth unemployment at regional level in the EU, at 66.1%, followed by Melilla which is the other Spanish ‘self-governing territory’ on the continent of Africa. Two-thirds of Ceuta’s young people were unemployed at that time.

Today, Ceuta is still the most disadvantaged place in the EU for young people

Since then, money has been spent and the official rate has fallen, but the ranking has not.

Both before and after 2018 the picture has remained the same, with Ceuta placed at No.1 in the rankings for the worst youth unemployment in the whole of the EU. The EU Commission makes it very hard to find these figures, but year after year Facts4EU has tracked this. It has been the same story, uncomfortable as this may be for the Commission. Below are the figures from last year (2025).

The simple fact is that no young migrant will want to stay in Ceuta.

Latest official EU data for regional youth unemployment

EU’s lumbering response to Spain’s walls being breached

Following the EU’s mass illegal migration crisis of 2015-6, caused by Angela Merkel, the EU put in place a series of measures to deal with emergency situations in a member state. These are involved, lengthy, and require all manner of drawn-out approvals from the other member countries.

In addition there is a fast-track procedure which can only be invoked in certain extreme circumstances. With tens of thousands breaking its borders in just two days, it might have been though this fast-track process would genuinely by very prompt. Instead, here is what the Council of the EU has to say:

As can be seen, in the lumbering EU, even in an emergency the best aspiration from that organisation is to agree to do something in four weeks’ time. In this case the procedure was invoked. However, only 22 out of the 27 member countries signed the letter to the Council. This goes some way towards showing how split the bloc has become on a variety of key issues.

The EU’s colonialism is normally out of sight – not now

One aspect of this whole affair has been mostly hidden in Europe and in the UK. That aspect is the number of colonies still owned and/or controlled by their European masters.

In this case we have Ceuta, in Africa, which is Spanish and therefore part of the EU. It is an autonomous city area in the same way as nearby Melilla, also Spanish-owned.

It has its own assembly in a similar way to London or Manchester, has a low-tax system integrated with the EU, and its defence forces are Spanish. It is for these reasons the Spanish could unilaterally react as fast as they did to the unfolding events last week.

While many ‘woke’ forces in the UK seems determined to belittle the United Kingdom’s past, and wish to rewrite elements of colonial history, it is forgotten that in the EU there are several countries whose colonialism is still alive and well in the current age.

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