Recent migration pressure on Spain has renewed scrutiny of Madrid’s competing interests in its relations with Morocco and Algeria
The unprecedented arrival of around 70,000 Moroccans into the Spanish border town of Ceuta has been dismissed by some Western media as a social media-driven phenomenon rather than a case of migration being weaponized by the North African monarchy. But behind the headlines and the chaos that left more than 70 people dead lies a complex geopolitical balancing act.
RT’s Oumaima Ichchar reports.
