Italy to Maintain Schengen Ban Until Ceuta Risks Fully Disappear

We'll lift Schengen ban only when Ceuta risks completely disappear says Piantedosi

(ANSA) - ROME, AUG 13 - Italy will live its Schengen ban on Spain only when the risks of mass migrant influx into the Spanish Moroccan exclave of Ceuta have completely disappeared, Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi said Thursday. The Ceuta case, in which an estimated 80,000 of migrants mostly swam to the exclave late last month with a further influx feared on August 15 despite the vast majority of them having been sent back, is not "political speculation against Spain," said Piantedosi. "Th...

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