EU seeks to salvage open borders policy

With Slovenia threatening to become the latest EU country to fence off its borders against refugees, Commission president Jean Claude Juncker will try to prevent the Union’s open borders policy from completely disintegrating at a meeting tomorrow.

He has taken the unusual step of calling together the leaders of 10 countries — a job normally done by EU council president Donald Tusk — to try to return to the Union’s rules on refugees.

Slovenia, with a population of just 2m, has now become the main entry point for refugees trying to reach Austria as neighbouring countries erect fences.