Italy extends temporary border controls with Spain for 15 days
Italy kept identity checks on air and ferry arrivals after 72,000 irregular entries into Ceuta prompted renewed border restrictions, officials said.
- Italy extended identity checks on air and sea arrivals from Spain for another 15 days.
- Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi ordered the extension after consulting Italy’s Committee for the Analysis of Immigration and Border Security.
- Italy cited continuing concerns about the situation in Ceuta and informed the European Commission and other EU interior ministers.
- Spanish estimates indicate that about 72,000 people crossed from Morocco into Ceuta in July, while more than 3,000 migrants remain there.
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(Rome=Yonhap News) Correspondent Min Kyung-rak = Italy extends strengthened border inspection measures introduced following the influx of migrants into Ceuta, a Spanish territory in North Africa, for another 15 days...
Italy has extended border controls for travellers from Spain for another 15 days, while Britain has suspended an agreement with France to return migrants crossing the English Channel in small boats. Both decisions are linked to actions by Rome and London to limit migratory pressure. The Italian Interior Ministry justified the extension of the checks by the situation in Ceuta and the “continued presence of already identified difficulties”. This i…
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The Minister for the Interior of the Plantadosi extends for another 15 days the controls at the air and maritime borders with Spain after the migration crisis in the exclave. Madrid towards a new extension of the checks. The dossier arrives to the Council Gai, while the Viminale accelerates on Cpdr and returns
Italy has extended the suspension of the Schengen rules with Spain by another 15 days, maintaining controls at the air and sea borders for travellers coming from this country, the Italian Ministry of Internal Affairs, quoted by Reuters, announced Wednesday.
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