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Italy's Interior Ministry has ordered the closure of the country's sea and air borders with Spain, temporarily suspending the Schengen free movement regime between the two countries.
Several EU governments have urged Spain to take control of its border following the mass intrusion in Ceuta. Meanwhile, Madrid said scores were killed in the border push. Follow DW for more.
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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.
Tajani went further than just calling for Spain to be shut out of Schengen, pinning the blame for the Ceuta unrest on Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s migration policy — which promises to legalize hundreds of thousands of unauthorized migrants — calling it “profoundly wrong” and claiming it “provides and incentive for human trafficking.”
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".