The crisis had calmed since breaking out in late July, but it has sparked tensions between EU nations which share open borders as well as criticism of the Spanish government.<\/p>\n
Italy suspended the 29-member Schengen arrangement of free movement with Spain and introduced border checks on arrivals from Spain. <\/p>\n
Italy was backed by Finland and Denmark, while the Czech Republic called for Spain’s membership to be temporarily suspended.<\/p>\n
Spain reacted angrily, with Prime Minister Pedro S\u00e1nchez noting Ceuta was not part of the Schengen area – and the migrants, therefore, had not arrived on the Spanish mainland and could travel to any other European country.<\/p>\n
It urged Italy to drop its border controls – and introduced its own when Rome refused, citing the possibility of a new influx on 15 August.<\/p>\n
On Saturday, Italy’s Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said his country had been afraid of a “risk of a new wave of arrivals in Ceuta”.<\/p>\n
“We’re not waging any kind of ‘battle’ against Spain; we’re simply carefully controlling arrivals,” he said.<\/p>\n
“Instead of worrying about us, Spain should worry about Morocco: that’s where the problems are coming from, certainly not from our controls.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The crisis had calmed since breaking out in late July, but it has sparked tensions between EU nations…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":739227,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-739226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=739226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/739227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}