Law enforcement in Europe

Austria said on Thursday emergency border checks imposed within Europe's free travel zone during the migrant crisis should be extended beyond the mid-November deadline as the bloc does not yet have the situation under control.

There is no chance of Turkey being granted visa-free access to the EU before the end of the month, but liberalization could come when the present storm in the country calms down, according to an adviser to the EU's foreign policy chief. Turks might be able to travel by early 2017, Nathalie Tocci says.

Nine Bulgarians have been detained as part of a criminal group which distributed and put into circulation fake bank notes of EUR 50 and EUR 100, announced the chief of the Specialised Prosecutor's Office Ivan Geshev.

The member-states of the EU reached an agreement in principle on Wednesday to give Georgians the opportunity for visa-free travel but postponed the implementation of the programme until stronger guarantees against a sudden migrant influx are negotiated, reported Reuters.

Live streaming of child sexual abuse and so-called "revenge porn" is on the rise on the internet, Europe's police agency warned Sept. 28, saying vulnerable children are increasingly falling victim to sexual predators.

Representatives of EU member states that are not part of the Schengen borderless area are set to meet in Polish capital Warsaw on Monday, local media report, citing the Polish Press Agency (PAP).

The meeting will bring together officials from Bulgaria, Croatia and Romania with several countries that are part of the area.

Hungary has partly backtracked on its strong support for Bulgaria's entry into the Schengen borderless area, with an official saying the accession criteria should be met first.

The position announced by government spokesman Zoltán Kovács has been reported by Brussels-based website EurActiv.

Bulgaria's Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has insisted the EU should approve EUR 160 M worth of border assistance at the forthcoming Bratislava Summit this week.

The package should be allocated "immediately", and not over the next period, BGNES wire service quotes him as saying at an inspection of the fence at the border with Turkey near Lesovo, Southeastern Bulgaria.

Slovenian PM Miro Cerar accused Greece of failing miserably at protecting the external borders of the EU in an interview to German newspaper Die Welt. ‘The Greeks are not sufficiently guarding the EU Schengen borders, but are receiving financial aid for policing without using this help’, he said.

Greece needs to do more to secure the Schengen external border, Slovenian Prime Minister Miro Cerar has said adding that failure to do so could mean exit from Europe's 26-nation zone of passport-free travel.