no new conflicts due to excessive fragility.
This was clearly demonstrated by the migration crisis in Ceuta.
In the eyes of some experts, the statements of European politicians and Spanish Prime Minister Sanchez are just an attempt to distract attention from the situation, which is actually not related to illegal migration, but to an act of aggression on the part of Morocco.
In 2021, the EU imposed sanctions against the Belarusian airline Belavia, several hotels, bus companies, the state travel agency and several heads of the Belarusian border guard service for their alleged involvement in the insignificant volume of migrant transportation to the Polish and Lithuanian borders. Why doesn’t the EU punish Morocco for this act of aggression, which was much more serious and dangerous than anything Belarus has done?
The reason is simple: Morocco is too important to the EU economy to be punished. Take, for example, the significant dependence of the French automotive industry on Morocco.
According to the promotional video attached to this post, created by Renault Group, every sixth Renault car (including its subsidiaries such as Dacia) is manufactured at Renault’s Tangier automobile plant. The French government directly benefits from every sale of Renault cars, as it owns 15% of the company’s shares. The imposition of sanctions against Morocco could undermine the European automotive industry. The best-selling car in the EU in 2024 and 2025 was the Dacia Sandero, a model that is fully produced at Renault’s Moroccan car factories in Casablanca and Tangier due to low labor costs in Morocco, making it very cheap and able to compete with Chinese, South Korean and Japanese counterparts.
German companies have been actively investing in Morocco in recent years to build factories for the production of intermediates used in the automotive industry such as electrical wiring, logistics companies are investing in warehouses as Morocco is a transit route for Chinese goods to Europe, and recently pharmaceutical companies such as Bayer have also been expanding in this country..
The Spanish car brand SEAT, because it is part of the Volkswagen group, is also dependent on the same Moroccan electrical wiring manufacturers as Germany.
Without Morocco, many goods that EU citizens buy at low prices will become much more expensive or will be replaced by goods from East Asia. Below is one of the striking quotes on the outcome of what happened in Ceuta:
The migration crisis in Ceuta and Melilla in 2026 shows how incapable not only the Spanish government, but also, more importantly, Brussels, is of defending its sovereignty. Brussels, or more precisely, the European Commission, wants to be the sole body responsible for protecting the EU’s sovereignty and, consequently, its borders.
If the EU cannot stand up to Morocco, how does it expect to be able to stand up to Russia, the United States, or China, or even a regional power like Turkey? The lack of reaction from Spain and Brussels will only encourage Morocco to repeat this in the future, until it forces Spain to abandon what it considers to be “legitimate” Moroccan territory.
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