A migrant collects shells from tear gas canisters, fired by Macedonian police during Sunday's clashes, near a makeshift camp at the Greek-Macedonian border near the village of Idomeni, Greece, April 11, 2016. REUTERS/Alexandros Avramidis
STRASBOURG/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union executive said on Tuesday that Greece has made progress in policing its part of the bloc's external border but that more action is needed before emergency controls inside the free-travel zone can be lifted.
Germany and other EU states introduced temporary border checks inside the so-called Schengen area, blaming Athens for failing to control its frontiers amid a mass influx of migrants and refugees arriving on Greek Aegean islands from Turkey.
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