Austria border fence plan risks 'waking ghosts of the past': Italian PM

Austria's plan to build a fence at its border with Italy to keep out migrants is a dangerous project that risks raising the ghosts of Europe's past, Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi said on Wednesday. Italy and Austria are members of the European Union's Schengen open-border zone but free movement has been jeopardized by the reimposition of controls at some major crossings by countries affected by an influx of migrants fleeing armed conflict and deprivation in the Middle East and Africa.