(AFP) Germany wants a stronger EU border agency to handle migration to Europe, Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said Thursday while judging “unsatisfactory” the squalid living conditions for thousands of migrants in Greece.
Maas said he was favourable “to proposals on strengthening Frontex” recently put forward by the European Commission, the EU’s executive arm.
He held a meeting with Greek counterpart Nikos Kotzias in Athens as EU leaders in Salzburg agreed to open talks with Egypt and other North African countries on limiting migration flows.
The German minister argued that even EU member states currently refusing to accept migrants could have an “active participation” in the upgraded force.
