Italy, Spain Agree to Remove Border Checks After Migration Spat
The two governments will work to lift the controls after 500,000 people were checked in the first month, Italy’s interior minister said.
- On Thursday, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni agreed in Brussels to phase out temporary border controls between their countries. The measures had required identity checks on travelers at airports and ports.
- Italy originally imposed the restrictions in July after more than 70,000 migrants crossed into the Spanish North African enclave of Ceuta from Morocco, citing security concerns. Spain retaliated by imposing reciprocal checks on arrivals from Italy.
- Controls remain in place for another seven days as both nations align their expiration dates to October 22 and 23. Travelers flying or sailing between the countries must still carry identification until the governments confirm final removal.
- Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska and Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi are now working to finalize removal of these measures. Their discussions aim to replace the restrictions with alternative cooperation protocols following the Brussels summit agreement.
- The agreement marks a return to standard Schengen zone travel principles, ending a dispute that saw Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares describe the Italian decision as "absurd." Restoring passport-free travel normalizes cross-border movement between the nations.
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Italy and Spain agree to abolish recently imposed border controls, following talks by the leaders of the two countries, as reported by diplomatic and government sources.
(Brussels=Yonhap News) Correspondent Hyun Yun-kyung = Engaging in a war of nerves by introducing mutual border inspection measures following the influx of migrants in Ceuta, a Spanish territory in North Africa...
Italy and Spain agreed to abolish the mutual border controls imposed in the aftermath of a diplomatic crisis linked to migration, following talks held by the leaders of the two countries.
The Italian government of Giorgia Meloni decided to extend, again, for seven days, the random border controls for travellers from Spain. On October 22, the date on which the border control of Italy ends, also coincides with the completion of the border measures that Spain also adopted in retaliation to the surveillance imposed by Rome. Meloni plans a bilateral meeting with the president of the Spanish government, Pedro Sánchez. Report of our cor…
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