The European Union needs an emergency response mechanism that a member state can trigger when the bloc's external borders are under threat, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday, SİA reports citing Reuters.
Migration crises along the EU's eastern flank this autumn underlined Europe's need to strengthen its ability to control who moves in and out of the bloc, the president said.
Only if Europe mastered its outside borders could free movement within the bloc's Schengen zone function properly, Macron added, as he set out a key reform plank of France's rotating presidency of the EU.
"A sovereign Europe is for me above all a Europe capable of controlling its borders," Macron told a news conference.
Macron said the emergency mechanism would need to rely on the support of EU border agency Frontex, as well as reinforcements from national law enforcement agencies when needed.
"Often we are too slow to react," Macron said.
The rules governing movement across the Schengen zone's open borders also needed reworking, Macron said, adding that he wanted the bloc to have regular political meetings on migration just as it has on economic matters.
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