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European outlets have read Italy's checks as a performance for domestic consumption, an account that requires the dispute with Madrid to be insincere.
Open-source warnings circulated in Moroccan media while Madrid took no preventive action.
The Italian foreign minister said Rome would restore free movement once the danger of a second mass crossing into Ceuta had passed.
Madrid will screen passengers arriving from a fellow member state at ports and airports, days after tens of thousands walked and swam into Ceuta unchecked.
Rome has tied any review of the suspension to intelligence warnings of a fresh mass crossing attempt at Ceuta.
Sánchez calls the Italian controls discriminatory though Rome says they fall only on non-EU travellers.
Washington has paired its attack on Madrid with a travel warning for the enclave and a congressional text placing Ceuta in Moroccan territory.
Madrid has sent Brussels a first assessment of its needs though it has yet to submit a formal request for money.
Rome wants the European Commission and a majority of member states to put on record their concern about the Spanish decree.
The two documents pulled from the government website recorded a sharp rise in land arrivals at Ceuta and Melilla in the weeks leading up to the mass crossing.
Migration Commissioner Magnus Brunner sees no direct link with the Ceuta crossings though says the decree sends the wrong message across the EU.
The ex-military said that Italy is being "Governed by a watered-down, fearful right, without the courage to make decisive decisions".
He argued that the broad support for protests against Spanish PM and his unilateral approach showed that “the left-wing Sánchez government is isolated”.
Soldiers say those who remain include men with criminal records and that firearms have been recovered, an account Spanish authorities have not confirmed.
No minister has lost their post over the mass crossing that brought tens of thousands of people into the Spanish enclave in a single day.
The Commission President told Pedro Sánchez that Rabat remained a strategic partner as EU interior ministers prepared for emergency talks.
Robles hardened Madrid's tone on Rabat and defended the intelligence services her Interior colleague said had failed to warn him.
The Interior Ministry put returns to Morocco at 48,300 by July 31, though reporting from the city described migrants still sleeping rough on beaches and hiding in…
The European Commission has offered Spain reinforcements through Frontex, though Madrid has yet to ask for them.
Ulf Kristersson has invoked Sweden's own 2015 experience in pressing Madrid not to let the crossings go unanswered.
The Prime Minister blamed smuggling networks for the mass crossing though he directed no criticism at Rabat.
Rome's threat has opened a diplomatic rift with Madrid, which summoned the Italian ambassador in protest.
Both regional governments asked for the downgrade, though crews are still fighting active blazes in Zamora, Castellón and León.
Prevention spending in Spain has fallen by half since 2009 while suppression held steady, and the Council's answer in June was a recommendation that binds nobody.
Three of the five people spared prison had been convicted of misusing public money.
Investigators traced Spain's largest ever wildfire to a spark from machinery used during a regional ban, while Moncloa pressed again for a state agreement on the…
The Spanish Government has nominated its second deputy prime minister for the top job at the International Labour Organization, months after she stepped back from…
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Madrid judges have thrown out two of the four charges against Gómez, leaving her facing five years rather than the 24 her accusers demanded.
The measure, known in Spain as the ley de nietos, or grandchildren's law, was written for the descendants of those driven out by political exile.
