From Today, Italy Prolongs Land Border Controls With Slovenia Until Mid-2025

Rome: From December 19, Italy further extended its border controls with Slovenia until June 18, 2025.

The measure aims to strengthen the country’s security amid Italy’s concerns related to terrorism and irregular migration.

The Interior Minster of Italy, Matteo Piantedosi, previously announced that such a measure may be further extended.

Italy’s decision to further extend land border controls with Slovenia has become effective today, December 19, and will be kept in place for an additional six months.

The new measure of Italy, aimed to enhance the country’s security, is set to be kept in place for six months until June 18, 2025, Schengen.News reports.

Notifying the European Commission regarding this decision, Italy argued that terrorism and irregular migration concerns are among the reasons that led the country to introduce such a measure.

Continued threat of terrorist infiltrations into migratory flows along the Mediterranean route and the Balkan route, ongoing crises in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, increasing migratory pressures and the risk of terrorist infiltration, risk of violent actions against Israeli citizens and terrorist activity, and heightened security risks associated with the Universal Jubilee of the Catholic Church; land borders with the Republic of Slovenia.

In November this year, Italy gave signals that border controls with its neighbouring country, Slovenia, might be extended beyond December 18, when the measure was set to end.

On November 18, the Interior Minster of Italy, Matteo Piantedosi, had a telephone call with his counterpart from Slovenia, Boštjan Poklukar, with the land border controls being among the main topics of discussion.

According to a local media report, Piantedosi indicated that border controls with Slovenia may be further extended due to terrorist and irregular migration concerns.