The situation occurring in the city of Ceuta is one of the most significant recent crises, both geopolitical and security and humanitarian, that the European Union faces on its southern border. The crisis involves multiple dimensions that overlap and interact with each other.
Political scientist Joseph Nye is cited to explain that in Ceuta, different simultaneous games are played on different overlapping chess boards: the historical dimension, the geopolitical, the socioeconomic, and the moral. All these dimensions transcend the special relationship existing between Spain and Morocco.
All these issues point to the responsibility assumed but not fulfilled on the part of Europe regarding a continent that was its colonial territory until practically the 1960s and 1970s of the twentieth century. The article thus establishes a connection between the current situation in Ceuta and the European colonial legacy on the African continent.
