EU set to keep emergency border checks as members argue over migration
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LUXEMBOURG- Germany, Austria and Sweden said on Thursday that emergency border checks inside Europe's free-travel zone should remain in place after a mid-November expiry as the EU continues to argue over how to deal with an influx of refugees and migrants.
The EU partly suspended the Schengen zone - where people can cross national borders without border controls - last year amid the chaos of some 1.3 million people crossing the Mediterranean to Europe to flee war and poverty in the Middle East and Africa.
Along with the British decision to exit the bloc, the failure of Schengen is another blow to European integration, with many eastern European countries refusing to take in refugees to relieve "front-line" countries such as Greece and Italy where migrants land.
"You've got to take a look at the reality. In Greece there are 50,000 refugees ... and there are many in the Balkan countries," Austria's Interior Minister Wolfgang Sobotka told his EU colleagues at a meeting in Luxembourg.
