VALLETTA: Europe is in a “race against time” to save its system of passport-free travel and must move fast to tighten control of migration over its external borders, European Council President Donald Tusk said on Thursday.

He said the migratory pressures on governments had left the bloc’s border-free Schengen accords on the brink of collapse. “Saving Schengen is a race against time and we are determined to win that race,” Tusk said.

Citing Sweden’s move to reimpose checks on arrivals from other EU countries and new measures in Germany and Slovenia, he told a news conference at a summit on migration on Malta that these showed EU states were under “huge pressure.”

Published in Dawn, November 13th, 2015

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