EU sets ultimatum to Greece

brussels - The EU member states, the Greeks want to give three months' respite to get waterproof the border with Turkey. Few diplomats still believe that this will succeed.

If not, then the countries are free to establish their own border controls for a period of two years. In this way, the Schengen treaty in effect temporarily sidelined.

The European Commission expressed Wednesday just hopeful that the Greeks next week finally all their eleven hotspots are working. Now there are only three. refugees are cared for in those hotspots and recorded. The Commission sounded the alarm about the willingness of Member States to absorb refugees, on the eve of the important European summit next week.

Prime Minister Mark Rutte said Wednesday after his meeting with Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, the Turkish measures to curb the influx of refugees,
have 'a major impact'.