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Calls to redraw zone which is blamed for spiralling migrant crisis
A new 'mini-Schengen' with fewer countries proposed to help ease flows
Emergency EU meeting on Friday will discuss new Schengen borders
European Council president Donald Tusk says 'clock is ticking'
See more on Europe's migrant crisis at www.dailymail.co.uk/migrantcrisis
Eastern European countries will be kicked out of the Schengen Zone along with Greece, Spain, and Italy under a radical plan to save the European Union passport-free travel area in the wake of the migrant crisis. Belgium, France, German, Luxembourg and the Netherlands are set to re-draw the boundaries to just include the original members, creating a ‘Mini-Schengen’. Strict checks could also be introduced at passport control to systematically compare the names of all arrivals against those on counter-terrorism databases – potentially leading to much longer queues.
Kept out: A migrant is lowered down from a border fence by a Spanish Civil Guard at the border between Morocco and Spain's north African enclave of Melilla. The migrant crisis is leading to calls to kick Spain, as well as Greece and Italy and eastern European countries out of the passport-free travel zone Schengen