Italy Suspends Schengen Travel With Spain as Ceuta Migrant Crisis Reverberates Across EU

Italy Suspends Schengen Travel With Spain as Ceuta Migrant Crisis Reverberates Across EU

After 60,000 migrants surged into Spain's enclave of Ceuta from Morocco, killing at least 72, Italy suspended passport-free Schengen travel with Spain and 22 EU member states called for coordinated border action. Ceuta and Melilla are the EU's only land border with Africa. The Schengen suspension shows how fast pressure at the bloc's southern periphery can disrupt internal European free movement.

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