Return scenarios for temporary exclusion of Greece from the Schengen - For "pseudorabies" speaks Steinmeier

Return scenarios for temporary exclusion of Greece from the Schengen - For "pseudorabies" speaks Steinmeier


Response peaks of the Austrian Minister Johanna Miklos-Laitner on temporary exclusion of Greece from the Schengen, gave the German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier speaking of "pseudorabies".

"The pseudorabies, such as the exclusion of countries from the Schengen area, do not promote anything and especially not restrict the refugee flow and divide Europe," the Steinmeier replied in an interview in the newspapers of Funke-Mediengruppe group.

"There will be no solution to the refugee crisis if solidarity is lost," he commented from his part, Steinmeier. "We need instead to focus all our forces to combat the causes that drive refugees to flee to strengthen the external borders of the EU and to achieve a fair distribution (asylum seekers) within Europe," he added.

The Presidency of the EU Council had ruled in December the possibility of expulsion of Greece from the Schengen Zone. Then, Interior Minister of Luxembourg, Jean Asselborn, whose country currently holding the presidency, had explained that "it is not legally possible 'to exclude a country from the Schengen Zone.

At the same time, to publish the Financial Times reported that European Commission and Berlin are thinking to strengthen Macedonia, preventing immigration from Greece in Skopje, leading analysts to be entrapped immigrants in our country. The plan was discussed Wednesday in EU Delegations, according to the newspaper.

Information now the British Telegraph said Monday at a meeting of EU interior ministers will discuss the possibility of temporarily suspending for two years the Schengen Treaty.

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