Schengen Zone: Temporary Exclusion of Greece?

During the meeting of the EU interior ministers in Amsterdam in late January, were discussed the plans for Greece to be sealed off the travel zone of Schengen. That temporary exclusion measure was offered by the Austrian Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner as a possible solution to the major migrant crisis.

In an interview for the German newspaper Die Welt, she said that if the Athens government does not do more to secure the external borders of the European Union, the temporary exclusion of Greece should be openly discussed. She further stated that the Schengen member state is not meeting the obligations. It seems that today, the protection of stability, security and order in Europe is not in the hands of Greece but in the hands of countries like Bulgaria which are not part of the Schengen Agreement.