Italy extends border controls with Spain for another 15 days

The immigration alarm remains in Ceuta. And Italy still hasn't reopened its borders. With a note of just a few lines, the Interior Ministry announced the decision of the Minister of the Interior Matteo Piantedosi to extend the controls at the air and sea borders with Spain for another 15 days. Translated: the stop to Schengen remains.

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It is the third extension since the migration crisis that exploded at the end of July, when around 60 thousand migrants arrived in the Spanish exclave, many of them young Moroccans and Algerians, with an estimated share of between 7 thousand and 10 thousand minors. The suspension of free movement arises from a specific political direction by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and has already caused discontent in the Spanish government and in most EU countries.

The Interior Ministry now confirms the line after yesterday morning's meeting of the Analysis Committee for Immigration and Border Security. The extension was decided, we read in the note, "after having consulted the Analysis Committee for Immigration and Border Security".

At the bottom remains "the objective of strengthening the protection of European borders, also to guarantee national security, as well as preventing and countering possible terrorist threats". The provision was communicated to the European Commission and the Interior Ministries of the other European Union countries.

At this point Madrid's counter-move seems obvious. Spain had introduced controls on travelers from Italy for the first time on August 8, in response to Rome's initial provision, and could now extend them beyond October 7.