Sexual violence in Ceuta, two new refugee camps established, five human traffickers arrested

Friday, Aug 21, 2026

Der Standard

Sexual violence and overcrowding plague Ceuta’s migrant situation; many sleep on beaches.

🔗 Read the article on derstandard.at

[This is an automatically generated summary, for reference only]

In the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, migrants are facing abuses, and there is ongoing dispute regarding the placement of minors. Local authorities estimate that between 5000 and 8000 migrants remain after a recent influx, while the central government in Madrid cited fewer than 2000 people; existing asylum facilities are overcrowded, forcing many to sleep on the streets or beaches.

🔗 Read the original article

Previous page From social media to politics: The debate surrounding Ukraine in Poland
Next page Romania, a key player on the "new EU map." How Europe is trying to decouple supply routes from Russia

© 2026 Pulse - Europe beyond the beat


PULSE is an initiative for cross-border collaborative journalism in Europe co-funded by the European Commission under Grant Agreement n. PO 4500158093.

PULSE is an initiative coordinated by OBCT that has been promoting intensive journalistic cross-border collaborations in Europe since 2024. Its main aim is to help strengthen the European public sphere by reporting on and telling stories from new and diverse perspectives.

At the heart of PULSE are 10 leading national news outlets (Delfi – Lithuania, Deník Referendum – Czechia, Der Standard – Austria, EfSyn – Greece, El Confidencial – Spain, Gazeta Wyborcza – Poland, HotNews – Romania, HVG – Hungary, Il Sole 24 Ore – Italy, Mediapool – Bulgaria) and three transnational organisations, including OBCT , n-ost and Voxeurop .

Additional outlets and journalists are involved as associate partners, including EUobserver , Føljeton (Denmark), H-Alter (Croatia), Levila (Estonia), Rubryka (Ukraine), and The Journal Investigates (Ireland).

PULSE is driven by a sort of virtual transnational newsroom made up of journalists from all the publications involved. It collaboratively produces new journalistic content on European issues on a daily basis, coming in many different languages. The editorial output amounts to over a thousand publications per year, mostly in article form.

PULSE also runs 4 thematic networks open to any European journalist interested in crucial issues such as EU enlargement, relations between the EU and other global powers, the EU’s green transition, or media and the information society. These networks function as online communities and periodically publish calls for pitches.