Europe must engage Morocco amid migrant crisis
Zaid M. Belbagi
June 01, 2021 22:44
A Moroccan boy swims using bottles as a float, near the fence between the Spanish-Moroccan border, after thousands of migrants swam across the border, in Ceuta, Spain, May 19, 2021. (Reuters)
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Should European governments have hoped that the global health emergency would stymie the flow of migrants from Africa, they were mistaken. As European central bankers conjured digital billions to mitigate the effects of the pandemic, in poorer African countries lockdowns arguably have cost more lives than they have saved. The very real nature of this crisis knocked on Europe’s doors last month, as 8,000 migrants sought to enter the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, bringing home the importance of collaboration with North African partners like Morocco.