Meloni Government Suspends Schengen Agreement with Spain Following Migration Crisis in Ceuta
Italy will require passport checks for air and sea arrivals from Spain after a surge of about 60,000 migrants into Ceuta, officials said.
- On Friday, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni suspended Schengen free-movement rules for arrivals from Spain, requiring passport checks for air and sea travel following a mass influx of irregular migrants into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta from Morocco.
- Spanish authorities reported over 50,000 crossings at the Ceuta border this week, with officials recovering 57 bodies on the Spanish side as migrants attempted to breach coastal barriers and fences into the territory.
- Meloni's government, facing electoral pressure from retired general Roberto Vannacci's far-right party, implemented the controls to demonstrate border security. Democratic Party MP Piero De Luca dismissed the move as "a purely demagogic proposal" intended "for domestic consumption."
- Italy's interior ministry reached an agreement with France to strengthen controls along their shared land border to prevent irregular migrants from entering Italy, while France increased checks on its border with Spain.
- President Donald Trump warned of similar outcomes in the U.S. if current policies persist, while right-wing parties across Europe blamed Spain's amnesty programs for unauthorized migrants as a root cause of the surge.
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Spanish citizens will be able to continue travelling to Italy even if the country has temporarily suspended the application of Schengen with Spain. However, since last Saturday the Italian authorities carry out documentation checks at their borders and will be able to decide whether or not to allow certain people from Spain to enter their territory when the regulations allow. Context. Italy has suspended its Schengen agreement with Spain for a m…
Italy Suspended the Schengen Agreement with Spain because of the Crisis in Ceuta, What Does It Mean?
On July 30, some 50,000 people from Morocco entered irregularly in the autonomous Spanish city of Ceuta, located in the north of Spain.
Italy began this Saturday to apply at airports and seaports random controls to travellers from Spain, following the decision of the Government of Giorgia...
📲 Click here and follow Maldita.es's WhatsApp channel so you don't get fooled! Posts from Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni (above) and the Italian Ministry of the Interior (below) announcing the measure. Source: X. European legislation allows for the "temporary reintroduction of border controls," although it stipulates that these controls must be "temporary," with a maximum period of six months, extendable to two years "in unforeseen circu…
Most of the 50,000 migrants illegally entering the Spanish enclave of Ceuta have returned to Morocco, and the integrity of the Schengen area is "absolutely guaranteed", the Spanish government said.
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