Category Mobility & Borders

Migration, demography, work and coexistence on Europe’s southern border, read with data and from both shores.

El Estrecho de Gibraltar visto desde la Estación Espacial Internacional, con las costas de España y Marruecos separadas por el mar

The Border

Europe is recording fewer irregular crossings and, at the same time, is beginning to run short of people. The border reflects back an uncomfortable image. Over the past few decades, borders have become battlegrounds and points of tension — not…

Mallorca’s route

Sanchez's trip to Algeria broke tradition in Spanish democracy, as he is the only head of government not making the first state trip to Morocco; diplomacy aside, on the agenda of this trip, Mallorca did not exist: there were no thorny issues such as the claim of the Balearic waters by the Algerian government, nor did there appear any meeting to deal with the issue of the pateras that invade the islands.