Where it breaks apart

• — Madrid's failure or a failure of solidarity — Rome and Washington point to Pedro Sánchez's migration management as the cause of the crisis, while Berlin refuses the "anti-Spanish bashing" and Madrid denounces the "selfishness" of several European capitals.
• — Legitimacy of the Schengen suspension — Italy justifies suspending Schengen with Spain on security grounds, while the Turkish press notes that crossings from Ceuta to the mainland already fell outside that regime, and Germany prefers reinforcing the EU's external borders to suspending free movement.
• — Political exploitation of the crisis — Washington and part of the European far right mobilise the crisis to illustrate an anti-immigration message, an appropriation the Russian press denounces as a cynicism shared by Western leaders.