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Spain to impose border checks on Italy travellers
Spain said on Friday it will impose border controls on flights and ships from Italy starting Saturday midnight until September 7, citing persistent irregular migratory pressure. The move responds to Italy's decision…
The Story in Brief
Spain said on Friday it will impose border controls on flights and ships from Italy starting Saturday midnight until September 7, citing persistent irregular migratory pressure. The move responds to Italy's decision to maintain its own border checks on arrivals from Spain, which Rome imposed after a mass influx of 72,000 migrants from Morocco into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta on July 30. Italy rejected what it called Spanish ultimatums, stating it would only lift its controls once security, terrorism and migration risks are resolved. Spain had earlier threatened reciprocal measures unless Italy rescinded its checks by Sunday.
The Indian Opinion
This spat between European neighbours over migration controls feels like a sideshow to a bigger crisis that keeps getting kicked down the road. Spain and Italy are both frontline states bearing the brunt of irregular migration, yet they are squabbling over who gets to close their door first instead of demanding a functional, shared EU asylum system. The numbers are not trivial, 72,000 people surged into Ceuta on a single day in July, but the real test is whether Brussels can broker a solution that does not turn the Mediterranean into a patchwork of tit-for-tat border closures. Will either government blink before Sunday's deadline, or are we watching the unravelling of Schengen under pressure?
Source: economictimes.indiatimes.com
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