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Spain imposes border controls against Italy as row over Ceuta migrant influx intensifies
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MADRID - Spain has imposed border controls on all air and sea travel from Italy as a row between the two EU countries intensifies.
Italy does not share a land border with Spain.
Italy has said that Spanish and EU citizens are exempt from additional checks when arriving in Italy, with these extra steps only for non-EU residents.
The number of people swimming to Ceuta at once has raised questions about why Morocco’s border guards did not attempt to stop them.
The two exclaves have long been a bone of diplomatic contention between Spain and Morocco, which does not recognise Spanish sovereignty over them.