MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the recent hybrid attacks and instrumentalisation of migrants in Ceuta and the need for a coordinated response to protect the EU’s external borders

Tabled by Gaetano Pedulla’, Estrella Galán, Isabel Serra Sánchez, Pernando Barrena Arza

11. Removed: Recalls that protecting the EU’s external borders is a shared responsibility between the Member States and that any failure to act decisively undermines the integrity of the Schengen Area as a whole; recognises the efforts made by countries targeted by instrumentalised migration, including Finland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Greece and Poland, and their determination in protecting the EU’s external borders; calls on the Commission and all Member States to step up their efforts, increase funding, including for external border protection infrastructure, enhance Frontex’s capabilities and ensure that all instruments are swiftly deployable in situations of crisis, hybrid threats or instrumentalisation; Added: Criticises the decision of Italy to immediately introduce internal border controls with Spain as of 1 August 2026 on the basis of the events in Ceuta, despite the fact that those arriving irregularly could not and did not travel onwards to Spain or another Schengen state; considers such a decision as neither necessary nor proportionate, and, together with similar decisions adopted by other Member States, including Germany, to prolong border controls, detrimental to the preservation of an area of free movement without internal border controls; notes, with regret, that the internal border controls were prolonged until 16 September 2026;

Wording as published by the EP, in English. PE788.264