Border Checks Outlast Review Date as Italy Notifies Sep 1 Deadline

Italy's promised mid-August review of its Schengen suspension against Spain passed without any relaxation. Addressing parliament's Schengen committee on August 13, Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi said checks would remain until 'security risks' to Italy were 'completely ruled out,' without naming a new review date or specifying what would satisfy that bar; Spain's Grande-Marlaska countered the same day that 'there is no risk of a terrorist threat' from the July arrivals. Italy has formally notified the European Commission its checks will run until September 1, though Rome says it could lift or extend them; Spain's separate reciprocal checks on Italian arrivals remain in force until at least September 7.