What is happening there and why it matters.
So it makes sense
Spain is a country tested today by two things at once: migration and climate. Its exclave of Ceuta on the North African coast is the Union’s only land border with Africa — more than 80,000 people crossed it in the summer of 2026 and thousands stayed. At the same time wildfires and drought devastate the country year after year; in August 2026 a soldier died fighting fires in Aragon and the flames threatened monasteries holding the remains of Spanish monarchs. Spain is also a state of autonomous regions with their own identities, so Madrid’s relationship with Catalonia or the Basque Country is a permanent political theme, not an episode.
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