{"id":1138341,"date":"2026-08-08T19:26:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T19:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1138341\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T19:26:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T19:26:15","slug":"spain-imposes-border-checks-on-italian-travellers-amid-migrant-dispute-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1138341\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain imposes border checks on Italian travellers amid migrant dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/spain\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"gtm-add-suggested-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Spain<\/a> on Saturday started border checks on travellers arriving from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/italy\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"gtm-add-suggested-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Italy<\/a>, responding to similar measures Rome imposed following an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/europe\/20260731-almost-50-000-migrants-crossed-morocco-ceuta-border-over-past-24-hours\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">unprecedented migrant rush<\/a> into the Spanish north African enclave of Ceuta.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t see a lot of the word &#8216;diplomacy&#8217; used in these decisions, not by the Italian government, nor by the Spanish government,&#8221; said one 36-year-old Italian tourist, Maria Celeste Grillo, who had just flown into Madrid.<\/p>\n<p>She said she had not seen any added checks as she stepped off the plane, but found their implementation &#8220;sad&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Spain announced Friday it would proceed with the heightened controls, citing &#8220;persistent irregular migration pressure&#8221; facing Italy\u00a0\u2013 deepening a row between the EU partners and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/nato\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"gtm-add-suggested-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NATO<\/a> allies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a-read-more\">Read more<a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/europe\/20260803-ceuta-migrant-influx-reignites-immigration-divisions-in-europe\" target=\"_self\" class=\"a-read-more__link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ceuta migrant influx reignites immigration divisions in Europe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Spain&#8217;s left-wing government has complained that Italy&#8217;s hard-right government on July 31 unfairly imposed one month of border checks on travellers from Spain \u2013 suspending the EU&#8217;s Schengen Area visa-free travel arrangements \u2013 because of the Ceuta influx.<\/p>\n<p>More than 70,000 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/migrants\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"gtm-add-suggested-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">migrants<\/a> had crossed from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/morocco\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"gtm-add-suggested-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Morocco<\/a> into the Ceuta enclave on July 30 and 31, though almost all of them subsequently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/europe\/20260731-eu-races-to-contain-new-migrant-crisis-as-thousands-cross-into-spanish-territory-of-ceuta\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">returned to Morocco<\/a> within 48 hours.<\/p>\n<p>The inflow alarmed European nations, especially right-wing ones urging tougher rules on irregular migrants. However, rules for Ceuta mean migrants cannot travel onward to continental Europe without passing another layer of border checks.<\/p>\n<p>Spain&#8217;s interior ministry said the new checks on incoming travellers from Italy would apply until September 7.<\/p>\n<p>(FRANCE 24 with AFP)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spain on Saturday started border checks on travellers arriving from Italy, responding to similar measures Rome imposed following&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1138342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5174],"tags":[768,2000,299,5187,2199,5805,104],"class_list":["post-1138341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-eu","tag-borders","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-european","tag-italy","tag-migrants","tag-spain"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1138341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1138342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1138341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1138341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1138341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}