{"id":3805,"date":"2026-08-03T21:07:55","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T21:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.arabnewsmonitor.com\/?p=3805"},"modified":"2026-08-03T21:07:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T21:07:55","slug":"stronger-eu-borders-needed-after-ceuta-crisis-von-der-leyen-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arabnewsmonitor.com\/?p=3805","title":{"rendered":"Stronger EU borders needed after Ceuta crisis, von der Leyen says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>European Commission president says work needed in five areas of migration control including returning more people<\/p>\n<p>The president of the European Commission has called for action to strengthen Europe\u2019s borders after tens of thousands of people arrived and quickly left the Spanish territory of Ceuta, triggering a furious row between Madrid and other European countries.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter to Spain\u2019s prime minister, Pedro S\u00e1nchez, on Monday, Ursula von der Leyen said: \u201cFrom this incident, it is clear that we must do more to further strengthen our borders at critical points, including vigilant monitoring and the use of physical barriers where needed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/aug\/03\/stronger-eu-borders-physical-barriers-ceuta-von-der-leyen\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European Commission president says work needed in five areas of migration control including returning more&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3806,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}