00:00A full-blown row has erupted between Rome and Madrid after the Maloney government refused to accept the Spanish cabinet's
00:07ultimatum to lift border checks for people arriving in Italy from Spain.
00:11The measures came into effect on Saturday morning and are set to remain in place until 7 September.
00:18The Spanish government said its retaliatory measures mimic those of Rome's, meaning now Italian nationals arriving to the Iberian country
00:26by land, sea or air will be asked to show an identity document,
00:30and non-EU nationals arriving from Italy will also be asked to present their Schengen visas or residence permit cards.
00:37Madrid added to the complications by detailing that Italian citizens arriving must present new issue identity cards in electronic format,
00:45warning that old paper cards would not be considered valid documents.
00:50Italy first imposed these measures against Spanish travelers following last week's influx of migrants into Spain's North African exclave of
00:57Ceuta,
00:58and will run to at least 50 in August.
01:01Spain denounced the measures calling them contrary to the interests of the EU and discriminatory to the Spanish population.
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