Italy, Spain Lift Border Controls Brought in After Ceuta Migrant Rush
- On Friday, Italy and Spain agreed to lift border controls on each other's citizens, ending a three-month suspension of open-border Schengen rules triggered by a migrant surge into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta.
- Italy initially suspended Schengen arrangements on July 31 to prevent migrants from Ceuta traveling into its territory, where more than 70,000 people crossed illegally from Morocco.
- Madrid responded with reciprocal checks on travelers from Italy, with Spanish Foreign Minister Jos Manuel Albares calling the Italian measures "absurd" and "a disgrace" to the European Union.
- Interior ministers Matteo Piantedosi and Fernando Grande-Marlaska finalized the agreement through a phone call, with the decision "reached after a careful assessment of the situation" and accompanied by enhanced information-sharing measures.
- Last week, Prime Ministers Giorgia Meloni and Pedro signaled their intention to end the checks at the European Council, resolving the political saga that followed the massive border breach in Ceuta.
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The measures taken after the Ceuta crisis are interrupted. The agreement between the ministers Matteo Plantadosi and Fernando Grande-Marlaska will be accompanied by the strengthening of the exchange of information to ensure the full security of the common space
Italy and Spain agreed not to extend the temporary controls introduced for air and sea travel between the two countries. The measures were adopted in the summer, on the basis of the migration crisis in Ceuta, and generated tensions between Rome and Madrid.
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MADRID (ANP/RTR) - Italy and Spain are lifting the border controls they had imposed on each other following the massive influx of migrants into the Spanish exclave of Ceuta. This brings an end to a three-month conflict between the countries. Italy initiated the border measures because the country...
Italy and Spain agreed to eliminate border controls applied by each of the other countries, announced Friday the Ministry of the Interior of Rome, thus putting an end to a three-month dispute, triggered by the influx of migrants to the Spanish enclave Ceuta, transmits Reuters. A statement from the Italian government states that the ...
ITALY and Spain are lifting border controls imposed three months ago due to the migrant crisis in Ceuta. The decision follows an agreement between interior ministers and aims to normalize relations.
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