Kresal Urges Better Protection of External Schengen Border

Brussels, 12 May - Interior Minister Katarina Kresal came out of a meeting with her EU colleagues in Brussels on Thursday by stressing that the bloc's ministers were in agreement that "the Schengen zone of course will not fall". She added Slovenia was in favour of measures against countries that are poorly protecting the external border.

Brussels Interior Minister Katarina Kresal takes part in a session of the EU Justice and Home Affairs Council dedicated to discussing the migrant situation in the Mediterranean. Photo: Thierry Monasse/STA

Brussels
Interior Minister Katarina Kresal takes part in a session of the EU Justice and Home Affairs Council dedicated to discussing the migrant situation in the Mediterranean.
Photo: Thierry Monasse/STA

Brussels Interior Minister Katarina Kresal takes part in a session of the EU Justice and Home Affairs Council dedicated to discussing the migrant situation in the Mediterranean. Photo: Thierry Monasse/STA

Brussels
Interior Minister Katarina Kresal takes part in a session of the EU Justice and Home Affairs Council dedicated to discussing the migrant situation in the Mediterranean.
Photo: Thierry Monasse/STA

Brussels Interior Minister Katarina Kresal takes part in a session of the EU Justice and Home Affairs Council dedicated to discussing the migrant situation in the Mediterranean. Picured with Austrian colleague Johanna Mikl-Leitner. Photo: Thierry Monasse/STA

Brussels
Interior Minister Katarina Kresal takes part in a session of the EU Justice and Home Affairs Council dedicated to discussing the migrant situation in the Mediterranean.
Picured with Austrian colleague Johanna Mikl-Leitner.
Photo: Thierry Monasse/STA

Brussels Interior Minister Katarina Kresal takes part in a session of the EU Justice and Home Affairs Council dedicated to discussing the migrant situation in the Mediterranean. Photo: Thierry Monasse/STA

Brussels
Interior Minister Katarina Kresal takes part in a session of the EU Justice and Home Affairs Council dedicated to discussing the migrant situation in the Mediterranean.
Photo: Thierry Monasse/STA

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