Germany scolds Austria for Greek Schengen threats

This week Greece slammed a Financial Times news observant several European ministers and comparison EU officials believed melancholy cessation from Schengen could convince Greece to strengthen a borders some-more effectively.


Junior interior apportion for emigration Yiannis Mouzalas pronounced a report contained “falsehoods and distortions” though Mikl-Leitner pronounced temporary exclusion was a genuine possibility.


”If a Athens supervision does not finally do some-more to secure a (EU’s) external borders afterwards one contingency plainly plead Greece’s proxy exclusion from a Schengen zone,” Mikl-Leitner pronounced in an talk with German daily Die Welt.

“It is a parable that a Greco-Turkish extent can't be controlled,” Mikl-Leitner said.


”When a Schengen signatory does not henceforth do a obligations and

only hesitatingly accepts assist afterwards we should not sequence out that possibility,” she added.

“The calm of many Europeans has reached a extent … We have talked a lot, now we contingency act. It is about safeguarding stability, sequence and confidence in Europe.”


Germany’s Steinmeier criticised Vienna’s warning however.


”There won’t be any resolution to a interloper predicament if solidarity disappears,” he said.

”On a contrary, we contingency work together and combine all a efforts to fight opposite a causes that are pulling a refugees into flight, to reinforce a EU’s outdoor borders and to grasp a satisfactory redistribution (of asylum seekers) within Europe.”

– ‘Make or break’ –

Cash-strapped Greece has been underneath glow for months from a EU partners over a attempts to conduct a largest upsurge of migrants in decades as hundreds of thousands rush fight and repression.


Of over a million refugees and migrants who reached Europe’s shores last year, a immeasurable infancy initial entered a continent by Greece after perilous sea voyages from Turkey before streamer north, with many anticipating for a new life in Germany.


International Monetary Fund arch Christine Lagarde combined her voice to Schengen concerns.


”The interloper predicament is a bit of a make or break, from my personal perspective,” Lagarde pronounced during a World Economic Forum in a Swiss ski resort of Davos. Asked if it involved Schengen, she said: “Yes, we consider so.”


The EU final month ruled out incompatible Greece from Schengen, with Luxembourg’s Minister of Immigration Jean Asselborn watching that “it is not legally probable to bar a state from a Schengen zone.”


However, a emanate came to a front once again with Wednesday’s FT report.


But a orator for Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras denied a EU made any hazard to that effect.