PRAGUE (Sputnik) — An EU-Turkey agreement signed in October stipulates that Ankara should take steps to cut the flow of migrants into Europe in exchange for financial aid and help with Ankara's bid to join the bloc.
"We hope that Schengen border protection in Greece will be implemented properly, and a joint plan between the European Union and Turkey will be implemented… But at the same time today we talked about a plan B," Fico said at a news conference in Prague.
The prime minister spoke after a meeting of the Visegrad Group (V4) countries — Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic — which was devoted primarily to the issue of migration.
The prospect of reinstating border controls with Greece surfaced last month after Austrian and Czech officials expressed their disapproval of Athens’ failure to secure the borders amid thousands of migrants using Greece as a transit country to travel further north.
