Spain border controls Italy September 7th
Spain is rolling out border controls on flights and ships from Italy, pointing to what it calls irregular migration patterns. The checks are set to stay in place until at least September 7th. It’s a striking move, one EU member putting up barriers against another, ostensibly over migration flows that Italy has tried to curb. The whole thing feels like a blow to the solidarity rhetoric that’s been preached for years, and regular people end up caught in the middle.
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out since the Spanish government is putting in border control methods now for flights and ships coming from Italy. Spain says it is seeing some irregular migration patterns from their Mediterranean neighbor. Spain's new border control methods will be in place until at least September 7th.
