意大利和西班牙已同意取消对彼此公民的边境管制，结束了因大批移民和寻求庇护者涌入西班牙飞地休达而引发的长达三个月的对峙。
Italy and Spain have agreed to lift border controls on each other’s citizens, ending a three-month standoff triggered after a mass surge of migrants and asylum seekers entered the Spanish enclave of Ceuta.
意大利内政部周四发表声明称，意大利内政部长马泰奥·皮安多西与西班牙内政部长费尔南多·格兰德-马拉斯卡通电话，同意不延长两国对欧盟开放边境的申根安排的暂停措施。
The Italian Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi and his Spanish counterpart Fernando Grande-Marlaska spoke on the phone and agreed not to extend their suspension of the European Union’s open-border Schengen arrangements, an Italian statement said on Thursday.
该部补充说：“这一决定是在对局势进行仔细评估后达成的，并将伴随加强信息共享措施，以确保共同申根区的全面安全。”
“The decision, reached after a careful assessment of the situation, will be accompanied by enhanced information-sharing measures to ensure the full security of the common Schengen area,” the ministry added.
这一决定是在意大利总理焦尔吉娅·梅洛尼与西班牙首相佩德罗·桑切斯在欧洲理事会会议间隙举行会晤之后做出的。
The decision followed a meeting between Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on the sidelines of a European Council meeting.
意大利右翼政府于7月31日首次暂停与西班牙的开放边境安排，称希望确保进入北非飞地休达的移民无法前往意大利领土。
Italy’s right-wing government first suspended its open-border arrangements with Spain on July 31, saying it wanted to make sure no migrants entering the North African enclave of Ceuta could travel to Italian territory.
马德里方面随即对罗马采取类似行动，称意大利的措施“不公正、违背欧盟利益，且对西班牙民众具有歧视性”。
Madrid responded by taking similar action against Rome, describing the Italian measures as “unjust, contrary to European Union interests, and discriminatory to the population of Spain”.
在这轮针锋相对的边境关闭之前，7月30日和31日有超过7万人绕过路障游泳进入休达，这些人员来自邻国摩洛哥，加剧了这块西班牙领土的紧张局势。
The tit-for-tat border closures happened after upwards of 70,000 people swam around barricades and entered Ceuta from neighbouring Morocco on July 30 and 31, fuelling tension in the Spanish territory.
大多数人几小时内就返回了摩洛哥，但包括无人陪伴未成年人在内的数千人已在往往恶劣的条件下滞留数周。
Most returned to Morocco within hours, but thousands, including unaccompanied minors, have remained for weeks in often dire conditions.
“我们以为我们的政府会在短期或中期内采取行动，但我们在这里已经两个月了，这些人还没有被送回去，”休达居民鲁本·冈萨雷斯说。
“We thought our government was going to do something in the short or medium term, but we’ve been here for two months, and these people haven’t been sent back,” Ceuta resident Ruben Gonzalez said.
西班牙政府对移民大规模涌入休达的处理方式，使社会党首相佩德罗·桑切斯在11月争取连任的努力变得更加复杂。
The Spanish government’s handling of the mass crossing of migrants into Ceuta has complicated Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s bid for re-election in November.
桑切斯此前已因政府决定为数十万无证外国居民开辟获得合法身份的途径而面临批评。
Sanchez was already facing criticism for his government’s decision to open a path to legal status for hundreds of thousands of undocumented foreign residents.
休达事件发生后，极右翼政党Vox和中右翼政党人民党指责他在移民问题上过于软弱，并在下月选举前的竞选活动中将这一问题置于核心位置。
After the Ceuta incident, Far-right Vox and centre-right PP parties accused him of being soft on immigration and put the issue at the centre of their campaigns in the run-up to next month’s elections.