Spain imposes border controls against Italy as row over Ceuta migrant influx intensifies
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Spain has recently implemented border controls on all air and sea travel from Italy amid escalating tensions over the migrant influx from Morocco into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta. These measures, which began at midnight on August 21st and will last for a month, followed Italy's decision to impose similar restrictions after around 78,000 migrants entered Ceuta.
Spain has demanded Italy to lift its controls by Sunday, while Rome has stated that they will remain in place until at least August 15th, when it expects a new wave of migration to hit Ceuta. The dispute has put Spain's socialist leader Pedro Sanchez at odds with Italy's conservative leader Giorgia Meloni, who has long advocated for stricter EU migration rules.
Italy, which does not share a land border with Spain, suspended the Schengen agreement temporarily to prevent migrants from entering Italy from Ceuta. However, Madrid dismissed its stance, calling it based on "spurious arguments" and asserting that the migrants had no way of entering the Schengen area. Both countries continue to argue over the cause of the crisis, with Spain accusing criminal networks of spreading disinformation and Morocco blaming the EU's Migration Commissioner Magnus Brunner.
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