# Former Spanish minister: Ceuta incident was a ‘hybrid attack’ aimed at ‘weakening’ the EU

https://mins.news/en/item/50933

- euronews, 2026-09-09 07:43 UTC
- Politics
- Original: http://www.euronews.com/video/2026/09/09/former-spanish-minister-ceuta-incident-was-a-hybrid-attack-aimed-at-weakening-the-eu

> Former Spanish foreign affairs minister Arancha González Laya says the mass entry of migrants into Ceuta amounted to “an attack” on the European Union’s external border and was intended to “weaken” the bloc.

## Stories

- [Ceuta Mass Migration and Border Controls](https://mins.news/en/topic/ceuta-mass-migration-crisis) — Markdown: https://mins.news/en/topic/ceuta-mass-migration-crisis.md

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