A three-month standoff over migration to Ceuta will end with Italy and Spain dropping controls on each other’s citizens, the Italian Interior Ministry said Thursday.
The Italian Interior Ministry said the ministers discussed the border arrangements by phone and that the governments would expand information exchanges to support security in the common Schengen area.
Reuters reported that concern about migrants reaching Ceuta and traveling onward to Italy prompted Italy to suspend border arrangements with Spain on July 31. Spain then imposed comparable restrictions on Italian citizens and said the Italian action discriminated against Spaniards and ran counter to European Union interests, Reuters reported.
