Spain starts border checks on Italy after migrant row

Migrants, some of them minors, queue to receive food staples from local NGO Media Luna Blanca in an industrial area where they are sleeping amid recent mass crossings by migrants on foot and by sea from Morocco into the Spanish territory, in Ceuta, Spain, August 6, 2026. REUTERS/Violeta Santos Moura 09 Aug 2026 05:39AM (Updated: 09 Aug 2026 05:42AM) MADRID: Spain on Saturday (Aug 8) started border checks on travellers arriving from Italy, responding to similar measures Rome imposed following a massive migrant rush into the Spanish north African enclave of Ceuta."I don't see a lot of the word 'diplomacy' used in these decisions, not by the Italian government, nor by the Spanish government," said one 36-year-old Italian tourist, Maria Celeste Grillo, who had just flown into Madrid.She said s