Sánchez condemns ‘polarising’ reaction of some EU countries to Ceuta border crisis as death toll rises – Europe live

In letter to Brussels, Spanish PM hits out at ‘selfish and illegal’ responses after tens of thousands of people crossed from Morocco to Spanish enclaveWildfires continued to put pressure on emergency services across Europe, with Greece, France and Spain all battling major outbreaks.But the wildfire in the Gironde region of south-west France has been “contained”, the French interior minister Laurent Nuñez said. The “megafire”, as it has become known in France, that ravaged 42,000 hectares (about 103,800 acres) of land “is no longer spreading”, Nuñez announced this morning, according to the French newspaper Le Monde. Continue reading...