At the external borders of the EU, the political use of migrations is the direct consequence of the externalisation of migration control. [...] This was the 2021 response of the Moroccan Ministry of Foreign Affairs to the hos-pitalisation in Logroño of the leader of the Polisario Front, Bra- him Ghali. [...] While the deaths at the border are a staging of what could happen to those who dare to cross, the the- atrics of the chaos these days in Ceuta are meant to remind the Spanish government of what could happen if it doesn’t end up giving in to Rabat’s demands. [...] At the external borders of the European Union, the use of migration as a political weapon is the direct consequence of our own externalisation policies. [...] But the European Union and its member states do not hesitate to respond in kind: in Greece, with the brutal action of the army at the border and the almost automatic suspension of the right of asylum; in Spain, with a discourse by the central government purely focused on the restoration of security and the defence of the border, deploying the army in the streets.
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