Read our Privacy noticeSpain is imposing border controls on all travel from Italy following its threat to retaliate after Rome introduced similar measures. Italy declared earlier that it would not bow to “ultimatums or impositions” from Spain, confirming its intention to maintain border controls on arrivals from the country until at least 15 August. Italy, which does not share a land border with Spain, justified its decision ‌to partially suspend the EU's border-free Schengen arrangements ‌with Spain to prevent any of the migrants who entered Ceuta from travelling on to Italy. Italy and Spain split on migration policyThe dispute between the two EU allies marks a new ‌low in relations between Italy's conservative prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, and ​Spain's Socialist leader, Pedro Sanchez. In Friday's statement, the ‌Spanish government said ​Italy had registered the highest number ‌of "irregular crossings in recent years", with figures ​that have been double those of Spain.