Italy and Spain lift border controls after months of tension over Ceuta
- More than 70,000 people irregularly crossed from Morocco into Ceuta in late July, triggering border security concerns in the EU bloc.
- Italy and Spain have agreed to lift border controls on each other’s citizens, ending a three-month standoff triggered after a mass surge of migrants and asylum seekers entered the Spanish enclave of Ceuta.
- The Italian Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi and his Spanish counterpart Fernando Grande-Marlaska spoke on the phone and agreed not to extend their suspension of the European Union’s open-border Schengen arrangements, an Italian statement said on Thursda
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- More than 70,000 people irregularly crossed from Morocco into Ceuta in late July, triggering border security concerns in the EU bloc.
- Italy and Spain have agreed to lift border controls on each other’s citizens, ending a three-month standoff triggered after a mass surge of migrants and asylum seekers entered the Spanish enclave of Ceuta.
- The Italian Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi and his Spanish counterpart Fernando Grande-Marlaska spoke on the phone and agreed not to extend their suspension of the European Union’s open-border Schengen arrangements, an Italian statement said on Thursda
Sources: Al Jazeera