Ceuta fallout reaches Campania: Spain's border checks hit summer travelers

Italy's foreign minister has called Spain's decision to impose retaliatory checks on travellers from Italy "incomprehensible and completely unacceptable," according to the Guardian, as people making their way between the two countries were caught up in the migration row. The move follows Rome's own controls on visitors from Spain, part of a tit-for-tat dispute that erupted after the Ceuta border rush, when tens of thousands of migrants swam from Morocco to the Spanish enclave.

For Campania, the timing could hardly be worse. With August at its peak and Ferragosto approaching, the region's airports and ports — Naples International Airport and the ferry terminals at Naples and Salerno — are the main southern gateways for travelers heading to Spain's Balearic islands and beyond. Deutsche Welle reported that Spain had warned Italy it would impose entry checks on visitors unless Rome halted its controls by Sunday; when that deadline passed, Madrid made good on its threat.