The recent invasion of Ceuta on June 30, 2026, was not an isolated episode, but the culmination of decades of tension on the Spanish-Moroccan border. Ceuta, located at the western entrance to the Strait of Gibraltar, remains under Spanish sovereignty since the 17th century.
Ceuta constitutes, together with Melilla, the only land border of the European Union in Africa, which gives it a geopolitical weight greater than its territorial size.
For Spain, Ceuta is a fully integrated territory, and this situation is part of a broader context of complex relations between the two countries.
