Spain-Italy Border Row Deepens After Mass Migrant Crossing Into Ceuta

Spain has imposed passport and visa checks on travellers from Italy after Rome suspended Schengen free-movement rules following the crossing of roughly 70,000 mostly military-age men into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta. Twenty-two EU leaders had already warned the mass crossing may constitute "hybrid warfare" against the bloc's open borders, while Italy defended its unilateral checks as a matter of national sovereignty. The standoff exposes cracks in EU cohesion, sharpening debate over how much border control individual nations should retain within European structures.