Over roughly 72 hours at the end of July 2026, an estimated 50,000 to 60,000 people crossed from Morocco into Ceuta, the Spanish enclave on North Africa's coast, by swimming around its breakwaters and forcing the Tarajal border fence.
Financial leverage and enforcement infrastructure, the two key tools of the EU's externalisation strategy, have not produced sustained cooperation on returns in Middle Eastern and African countries.
This briefing draws on PRISM’s integrated data infrastructure — cross-referencing Frontex operational data, UNHCR arrival statistics, and Eurostat enforcement and asylum datasets — to provide a comprehensive statistical landscape of EU migration governance across 2023–2025.
The full country dashboards and the public country hubs no longer require registration — severity, funding, displacement, food security and protection for 230+ countries.
An AI analyst whose answers are retrieved from PRISM's live datasets and report archive at the moment you ask — never from memory. Every figure carries a linked citation to its exact source, every answer ends with a “Reproduce this” trail of the queries it ran, and when the data can't answer, it says so.