The standoff in recent hours between Italy and Spain following the Meloni government’s decision to suspend the Schengen agreement towards Madrid due to the Ceuta migration crisis is not the first case in which a member state has decided to reactivate controls. Since 2006 (the year the European Commission began formally tracking and recording all notifications) to today, the temporary reintroduction of border controls has been notified and implemented over 500 times.
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The block can last for one month and can be extended. The head of the Interior Ministry, Matteo Piantedosi, emphasized that at this moment there are “at least a dozen countries in Europe that have long implemented this measure: Germany for its own borders, France towards us at Ventimiglia, and also Italy with Slovenia for about two years.”
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Suspensions in force this year
Limiting the investigation to this year, it emerges that the countries currently enforcing a suspension of the agreement are eight (Italy, Austria, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Germany, Sweden, and France).
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