Sánchez Convenes National Security Council Over Ceuta Crisis

Nearly four weeks after the July 30-31 mass crossing, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez convenes an extraordinary meeting of Spain's National Security Council on the Ceuta crisis, with officials acknowledging the city remains 'very far' from normality. The government plans to deploy roughly 25,000 vaccine doses (including for measles, diphtheria, polio and tetanus) amid reports of tuberculosis and scabies cases. Ceuta's Spanish government representative, Miguel Ángel Pérez Triano, rejects opposition calls for his resignation as 'an absolute act of irresponsibility and cowardice'; PP spokesperson Borja Sémper demands 'all the immigration units that are needed' work three shifts daily to process returns. Former EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell separately criticises the wider European reaction as 'hysterical, disproportionate and absurd,' noting only France, Portugal, Luxembourg and Ireland showed consistent solidarity with Spain among member states.