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Spain and Italy work to lift border controls

The Interior ministers will meet this week to finalize an agreement

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The acting Spanish Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, greets the Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni this Friday at the informal summit of the Twenty-seven in Granada.
The president of the Spanish government, Pedro Sánchez, greets the Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni this Friday at the informal summit of the Twenty-seven in Granada. Miguel Ángel Molina / Efe
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16/10/2026 - 10:14 h
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BrusselsSpain and Italy are working to lift border controls at ports and airports. The Italian government has decided to extend the suspension of the Schengen zone with the Spanish state for only one week, during which it is expected that their Interior ministers will work to eliminate them, as confirmed by Spanish diplomatic sources to ARA.

Giorgia Meloni's executive suspended the free movement of people following the massive entry of migrants into Ceuta at the end of July. A measure to which Spain responded with reciprocity.

The decision comes in the middle of a leaders' summit in Brussels, where Spanish President Pedro Sánchez has met for the first time with the Italian Prime Minister since the Ceuta crisis this summer.

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