Italy and Spain have agreed to lift border controls on each other’s citizens, ending a three-month standoff triggered by a mass surge of over 70,000 migrants and asylum seekers into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta from Morocco in late July. The decision was reached after Italian Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi and his Spanish counterpart Fernando Grande-Marlaska spoke on the phone, agreeing not to extend their suspension of the EU’s open-border Schengen arrangements. Italy had first suspended its open-border arrangements with Spain on July 31, citing concerns that migrants entering Ceuta could travel to Italian territory, to which Madrid responded with similar measures.