Spain and Italy have started checking travelers crossing between their two countries, each retaliating after the other imposed checks first.
A surge of migrants crossing into Ceuta, a Spanish territory in North Africa, led 22 EU countries to demand Spain be punished, even suspended from Schengen, the EU zone where people can travel without passport checks.
Italy has reinstated passport checks on non-EU travelers arriving from Spain, using a Schengen rule that lets any EU country restore border checks on its own, only informing Brussels afterward.
Leaders from 22 EU countries have criticized Spanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez over how Spain handled a surge of migrants crossing into Ceuta, a Spanish territory in North Africa.
Italy, Finland and Austria are demanding that Spain be suspended from Schengen, the European agreement that lets people cross many borders without passport checks, after about 60,000 people crossed into Spain's Ceuta enclave in North Africa.
About 60,000 migrants crossed from Morocco into Ceuta, a Spanish territory in North Africa, within 24 hours, up from roughly 50,000 the day before.
Spanish authorities say nearly 50,000 migrants crossed by sea from Morocco into Ceuta, a small Spanish territory on Africa's coast, within a single day.
Wildfires in southwest France have burned 42,000 hectares and forced more than 300,000 people to leave their homes, with the flames moving toward Bordeaux, the heart of France's best-known wine region.
One of Spain's deadliest wildfires killed 13, and now PM Pedro Sánchez wants prevention. Meanwhile France is chasing the possibility that a fire near Paris was set on purpose. Two countries, one blistering summer, and a fire season that no longer respects national lines.
Wildfires in Spain's Andalusia region have killed 12 people, with more than twenty still missing, according to <a href="https://www.irozhlas.cz/zpravy-svet/spanelsko-francie-portugalsko-chorvatsko-i-albanie-evropa-se-potyka-s-rozsahlymi_2607110943_vsn">iRozhlas</a>. Firefighters across four other European countries battled major blazes the same week.
Brussels referred a batch of member states to the Court of Justice in a single infringement sweep — from Spain's paperwork problems to Hungary's price caps. A plain-language guide to the EU's enforcement machine: who decides, what the steps are, and when the fines start.
At the NATO summit in Ankara, Donald Trump declared Spain 'a wasted cause' and threatened to end all US trade with the country. Because trade policy is an exclusive EU competence, any real confrontation would be with the entire single market — at a moment when the IMF is already trimming global growth forecasts.