The EU member states imposing border controls to stop migration flows from Greece will have to remove them before the end of year.
EU migration and home affairs commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos said on Tuesday (2 May) that Austria, Germany, Denmark, Sweden and non-EU member state Norway will only be allowed to extend existing controls one last time.
"This is the last prolongation, I repeat it, this is the last prolongation," Avramopoulos told reporters in Brussels.
The con...
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Nikolaj joined EUobserver in 2012 and covers home affairs. He is originally from Denmark, but spent much of his life in France and in Belgium. He was awarded the King Baudouin Foundation grant for investigative journalism in 2010.