Borrell still has time, before joining his nth public office, to explain his silence, which lasts for 13 months, before the irreversible closure of the only land customs between Spain and Morocco, decided unilaterally by the Alawi autocracy on 1 August of last year. Since then, the importation of merchandise can only be done through the port of Beni Enzar, which de facto supposes the suffocation of the port of Melilla, the city's economic lung, leaving the 1956 agreement between Mohamed V and Franco without effect, just after Moroccan independence. Nothing, except to announce the creation of a bilateral working group, whose progress is unknown, said Borrell. Yet.

Ignacio Cembrero, from El Confidencial, has become almost the only journalist in the Spanish press who regularly reports on the government's abandonment of its two main enclaves in North Africa. Because the harassment is not reduced to Melilla. It also affects Ceuta.

Since the arrival of the Alawi dynasty on the throne in 1664, the vindication of the two cities became a constant policy that serves, like that of Western Sahara, as an element of internal cohesion in the face of a supposed colonizing state , consciously ignoring that Ceuta and Melilla are Spanish cities before Morocco existed as a State. When you want to hide your own miseries, it is easy to use an outside enemy. Therefore, so that they do not transcend the shameful contrasts between the extreme poverty of the population with the excesses of the royal family, the lack of freedoms, the increase in repression in the Rif and the backwardness of a country whose young people see no more prospects That one patera, Mohamed VI has decided to celebrate his 20 years of reign announcing the end of the irregular economy (read contraband) between both cities and Morocco. Being absolutely unacceptable the conditions suffered by the porters of Ceuta, the measure would mean its economic suffocation, the ultimate Moroccan goal. This strangulation, explains Cembrero, "could be stopped if, as the Canary Islands did in 1991, they renounced to be a free port and requested their entry into the European Customs Union ", which "would turn their borders into Euro-Moroccans instead of Hispanic-Moroccans" .

The silence of Borrell, Sánchez's minister, is ominous. More in a country (in the process of national dissolution) that in 1978 left open the possibility in its Constitution to cede territories if so decided by a simple majority of the Congress (art. 94.1. C).

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