Spain imposes border checks on Italian travelers in tit-for-tat move over Ceuta migrants row
The checks target passengers on flights and ships as Spain retaliates over Italy’s migration restrictions, with controls set to last at least one month.
- Effective Saturday, the Spanish government implemented mandatory passport, nationality, and visa checks for all arrivals from Italy, escalating a diplomatic row over migrant management between Madrid and Rome.
- The diplomatic dispute follows the sudden arrival of 72,000 migrants in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta last month, after which Italy began imposing border controls on Spanish citizens on August 1, citing criticism of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez's migration policies.
- Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's office stated on Friday that Italian authorities "have no intention" of lifting border checks until at least August 15, maintaining Rome will not accept "ultimatums or impositions" regarding national security.
- Travelers arriving at Barcelona airport faced random police checks overnight as the new measures took effect, according to the Spanish state news agency EFE, after Italy rejected a demand to lift its restrictions by August 9.
- The dispute continues to strain the European Union's Schengen visa-free travel area, with Italy indicating it will only review border policy when certain of no "security or terrorist risks" or new waves of irregular migrants.
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Following the migrant situation in Ceuta, Italy has tightened controls on travelers from Spain. Now Spain has responded again by conducting passport checks on passengers from Italy.
In response to the suspension by Rome of the Schengen agreements with Spain, the government of Pedro Sanchez announced the introduction of identity checks for travellers from Italy.
Spain announced that border controls on flights and ships from Italy will remain in place until September 7, after Rome implemented similar measures. The post Retaliation from Spain: Checks on around 200 arrivals of travelers from Italy appeared first on in.gr.
Following the reintroduction of border controls for travellers from Italy, Spain has refused entry to the first persons and, as the Spanish Ministry of the Interior announced, ten people have so far been rejected.
The Spanish response to the controls imposed by Italy leaves an unusual scene at Spanish airports, with travellers lining up to identify themselves as soon as they get off the plane within the Schengen area
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