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Migrants who crossed into Spain from Morocco line up for water distributed by Spanish soldiers in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, Sunday, Aug. 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue) Migrants return to Morocco from the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, Friday, July 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Antonio Sempere) Spanish army soldiers block access to the beach for people crossing from Morocco into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, Friday, July 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Antonio Sempere) BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — The junior partner of Spain’s government wants Spain to reconsider hosting the next World Cup with Morocco after the migration crisis in Ceuta , when tens of thousands of people surged across the Moroccan border and into the European enclave last week. Sumar, a small left-wing party that shares Spain’s government with the leading Socialists, presented a motion in the country’s Parliament on Wednesday asking Spain’s sports authorities to revisit its plan to co-host the 2030 soccer tournament with Morocco and Portugal. The motion would be non-binding.
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Some 2,000 people remain in Ceuta, according to Spain’s Interior Ministry, including one thousand minors . More than 80 people died when they tried to swim in a mass crossing around a breakwater and border fence from Morocco into Ceuta, a Spanish city perched on the North African coast, on Thursday and Friday.
