As of October 21, Italian authorities resumed police checks at the common border in the northeast for ten days, according to EU Helpers.
This decision was made in response to the growing threat of violent acts within the EU as a result of the Israel-Hamas conflict and worries about the unauthorized migrant inflow.
Due to the possibility of terrorist attacks among migrants traveling over the Balkan route, Italy's Interior Minister, Matteo Piantedosi, stated that border controls would probably be maintained throughout the next year.
The Schengen Zone now includes Italy, Slovenia, and Croatia among its members. These three European nations are the most recent to implement border controls.
These three nations have begun conducting frontier inspections in response to Middle Eastern security worries.
Italian Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi has stated that Italy will maintain restrictions at its joint border with Slovenia until the next year.
The Minister claims that because of the possibility of terrorists among the migrants traveling over the Balkan route, such a step needs to be extended.
Border controls were imposed by the Italian government on October 21 and were scheduled to last until October 30.
But the Interior Minister emphasized in an interview with "Il Piccolo" that ten days of controls is not enough and that an extension is required. The Minister added that Slovenian and Croatian authorities would work with Italy to lessen the effects of such a decision.
Nearly 16,000 people have crossed the eastern border into Italy illegally since the year's beginning, according to Piantedosi, who also announced that he has planned a meeting with colleagues from Slovenia and Croatia on November 2 to discuss police collaboration.
The interior ministers of Slovenia, Boštjan Poklukar, and Italy's Matteo Piantedosi and Croatia's Davor Božinović, met with the aim of enhancing their collaboration in border patrols along the Western Balkans route.
Piantedosi, highlighting that the measure was implemented in Italy in a fashion that did not cause considerable problems for cross-border workers, stated in a press conference held following the meeting that data after ten days of restoring police checks on the internal Schengen borders resulted in effective results.