# Macron backs Spain over Ceuta migration crisis and urges firm EU action

https://mins.news/en/video/80830

- euronews, 2026-09-30 18:29 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbHykL4EHhw

> Emmanuel Macron backed Spain in its response to the migration crisis in Ceuta and called for stronger EU action. Macron and Pedro Sánchez supported closer France-Spain cooperation and greater European unity on migration, economic and geopolitical issues, despite Spain’s Senate rejecting their bilateral Friendship Treaty.

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