(ANSAmed) - Brussels, May 4 - The European Commission has
presented a recommendation, on the basis of a
never-previously-used Schengen agreement article, to the
European Council to allow Austria, Germany, Denmark, Sweden and
Norway to extend temporary border controls for up to six months
and only for specific borders, ANSA sources said Wednesday.
The move is linked to problems with Greek management of
asylum seekers and control of its part of the EU external
frontier and, therefore, does not relate to the Brenner Pass at
the border between Italy and Austria, the sources said.
Vienna has said it wants to introduce controls at the
Brenner Pass to stop asylum seekers arriving from Italy.
The Commission has also recommended that the European
Council and European Parliament approve the scrapping of visa
requirements for Turkish citizens who want to visit the
Schengen area. The abolition of visa requirements was one of the
most controversial recent EU-Ankara agreements to ease the
asylum-seeker crisis. Ankara still has five requirements to
satisfy by the end of June.
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