Tusk Sees Threat to Border-Free EU Travel as Slovenia Eyes Fence

Slovene Foreign Minister Karl Erjavec said the Adriatic nation will “adopt all measures” to ensure the safety of its citizens and migrants if the situation worsens and the accord reached Sunday in Brussels isn’t implemented, STA news service reported Tuesday. EU President Donald Tusk said the bloc must protect its external frontiers. He echoed an alarm issued Monday by Italian Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni, who said free- movement of people, one of the EU’s founding principles, may be at risk.

“This challenge has the potential to change the European Union we have built,” Tusk told EU lawmakers on Tuesday in Strasbourg France. “It has the potential to create tectonic changes in the European political landscape, and these are not changes for the better.”