New Delhi, Aug. 1 -- The sudden rush of migrants from Morocco into Spain's Ceuta has sent alarm bells ringing across the Spanish border into western Europe, with Italy now announcing that is it temporarily suspending the Schengen Agreement with Spain over the crisis.

While announcing the decision to suspend their open-border travel with Spain, Italy has said that it is doing so in order to protect its own citizens as well as the European frontiers.

The decision to pause the Schengen agreement was announced by Antonio Tajani, the foreign minister of Italy, who explained that this was necessary owing to the thousands of migrants coming into Spain.

"The temporary suspension of Schengen with Spain is a necessary choice to safeguard the sec...