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Migrant crisis pushes Italy to restore border checks with Spain, testing Europe's open-border system
Conservative leaders across Europe react as an estimated 60,000 migrants crossed into Ceuta from Morocco within 24 hours, threatening its open-border policies.
Italy imposes month-long controls as Finland says countries that fail to protect Europe’s external borders cannot remain in free-travel zone
On Thursday, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni called for Spain to be suspended from the Schengen area, describing the images from Ceuta showing thousands of arriving migrants as "shocking".
Spain is reinforcing its border at Ceuta after it was overwhelmed after a mass migration event where an estimated 69,000 Moroccan migrants entered the country in a mass migration
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has called for a stronger European response to irregular migration following the recent mass crossing.
Spain’s prime minister has rushed to Ceuta to defuse a growing crisis after an estimated 50,000 migrants poured into the Spanish exclave in North Africa from Morocco in a single day.