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Financial Times insist on the “plan for Greece’s isolation” that European partners are thinking of putting into effect, which will mean that Europe will expulse Greece from Schengen area.

The interior ministers of the EU member states are convening at an informal meeting of the Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) council in Amsterdam on Monday and Tuesday.

Among the topics of discussion will be migration, border control, fight against terrorism and cyber security.

The Sunday Times reports that Germany, Austria, Belgium, Sweden and Denmark are set to  warn Greece that it has six weeks to curb its migrant flow or else it will be “quarantined” outside the EU’s borderless Schengen area.

Unless Greece secures EU's external border, the Schengen border will move towards central Europe, says Johanna Mikl-Leitner.

Ahead of a meeting of the Council of EU interior ministers in Amsterdam, the Austrian minister told her colleagues that Vienna's decision to limit the reception of asylum seekers stands.

Migration Minister Yiannis Mouzalas slammed the Financial Times report alleging that several EU ministers and senior EU officials believe that threatening suspension from the Schengen Zone could force Greece to protect its borders more effectively.

Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban has said that the EU needs a fence along Greece's borders with Macedonia and Bulgaria to cope with the ongoing migrant influx and save the bloc's Schengen area of passport-free travel.

During his visit to Sofia on Thursday, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto reaffirmed his country's support for the accession of Bulgaria to the Schengen Area.

At a meeting with his Bulgarian counterpart Daniel Mitov, Szijjarto highlighted the need for reliable guarding of the external borders of the EU.

EU Commissioner for Migration and Internal Affairs on Wednesday sent a clear message to member states to differentiate from the European Commission’s official stance on the issue of migration, reiterating his position on the maintenance of the Schengen Treaty.

The European Union should establish a new frontier on the northern border of Greece, because an agreement with Turkey will not be sufficient to stop hundreds of thousands of migrants from entering Europe, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said.

According to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, Bulgaria should be admitted to the Schengen Area in order for the EU to be able to deal more effectively with the ongoing refugee crisis.

Orban added in an interview for a public radio on Friday that the EU should establish a new frontier on the northern border of Greece in order to halt the migrant influx to Europe.