Quelle: Reuters
- France, Germany call for EU to take over borders
- Measure reflects mounting frustration with Greece
- EU executive to present border guard plan on Dec. 15
- EU leaders to tackle migration at summit on Dec. 17
By Alastair Macdonald
BRUSSELS, Dec 8 (Reuters) – Germany and France have proposed giving an EU border force the power — in theory at least — to patrol Greece’s frontiers uninvited by Athens in the latest sign of hardening attitudes towards solving Europe’s migration crisis.
The proposal, in a letter sent last week to the EU executive in Brussels and seen by Reuters on Tuesday, would in principle apply to any member state, not just Greece. But it is driven by frustration that Greek failure to control large numbers arriving by sea is putting the EU’s open-borders Schengen zone at risk.
