The European Union has only ten days left to significantly reduce the flow of migrants and asylum-seekers into Europe from Turkey, or a fragile Schengen system is at risk of total collapse, according to the EU’s migration commissioner.
The European Union has only ten days left to significantly reduce the flow of migrants and asylum-seekers into Europe from Turkey, or a fragile Schengen system is at risk of total collapse, according to the EU’s migration commissioner.
The senior EU official's warning came after a Thursday meeting of EU justice and home affairs ministers in Brussels, where the officials had gathered to once again try to find a solution to the current migrant crisis, RT informs.
“In the next 10 days, we need tangible and clear results on the ground. Otherwise there is a risk that the whole system will completely break down,” Dimitris Avramopoulos, EU Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship, said on Thursday at the press conference after interior ministers dealing with the crisis met in Brussels.
According to Yahoo News, the EU official also warned of an imminent humanitarian crisis in Greece, the main arrival point for migrants in Europe, or on the western Balkans route most take to richer northern European countries.
"The situation is very critical. The possibility of a humanitarian crisis is very real and very near", he added.
Currently, the border controls threaten Europe's Schengen free travel area that spreads all over 26 countries.
