Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni threatened to take “extraordinary measures” to protect her country’s borders following a surge of migrants in Spain.
“We will not retreat even an inch,” Meloni said, adding that images from Spain’s city of Ceuta were striking and once again showed that uncontrolled illegal migration poses a concrete threat to the security of Europe’s borders.
“Italy will not simply stand by and watch. We are ready to intervene with extraordinary measures to defend our borders and the security of our citizens,” she said.