Originally Posted by MaDalton

this has been brought up before - and i still think it's wrong.

first of all: Italiens were already allowed to travel freely since years

second: within 30 kilometers left and right of the borders the controls will be much higher than before. and they will go after what looks suspicious, not generally everyone that just wants to travel from A to B

and third: the border controls over the last 2 or 3 years were a joke anyways, most of the time they merely lifted their head from their newspapers or breakfast.