(AFP) The EU must convince Italy, Spain and Greece to back a plan to bolster the bloc’s external borders, Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said Wednesday as bloc leaders met in Salzburg to discuss the controversial issue of migration.
EU Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker “has put forward a proposal to widen the mandate of the Frontex (border agency) and make repatriations (of refugees) more effective,” Kurz said in an interview with the Austrian daily Der Standard.
“Some member states are still rather sceptical. It’s our task to convince them,” said Kurz, whose country currently holds the European Union’s rotating presidency.
As EU leaders gathered for Wednesday’s summit, EU Council chief Donald Tusk warned that leaders must “stop the migration blame game.”
