Palazzo Chigi is calling for a suspension of the Schengen Code, but the exclave’s special status and forty years of reinstatements never before used against another Member State point to the uncertain prospects for this initiative

On the one hand, there are those, such as France, who would simply like to tighten border controls; on the other, however, Austria, Denmark and Finland support Meloni’s initiative. European governments face the migration crisis in the Spanish exclave