(VOVworld)- European countries have strengthened the control of migrants after a series of women in Cologne, Germany were attacked by a number of migrants from Middle East and North African countries.

An influx of migrants travel to Sweden- Photo: Reuters: Bax Lindhardt

After mass sex attacks on women in Cologne, German Chancellor Angela Merkel responded by proposing a sharp revision of asylum laws to speed up the deportation of migrants who break German laws. Any migrants that commit crimes or receive imprisonment sentences will be deported from Germany. The anti-Muslim movement in Cologne called on the government to eliminate the current migration policy because in 2015 alone about 1 million migrants entered Germany.

Over the past few days, a number of European countries have tightened control at border areas to cope with the increasing influx of refugees. About 4,000 refugees from Turkey go through Greece to enter Europe every day. At a recent Ministerial Meeting in Brussels, German Minister of Home Affairs Ole Schroder criticized the European Commission’s s failure to control the influx of refugees to Europe. Top EC leaders stressed the need to reduce the number of refugees to Europe by the middle of 2016 to control the current migrant crisis. Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico called on the EU to convene an extraordinary meeting to find necessary security solutions to the issue. Fico refused to receive migrants from Muslim countries to prevent similar Paris terror attacks or Cologne’s sex attacks against women.  Norwegian officials asked asylum seekers to participate in classes to learn customs and culture of their countries of residence and Europe. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban suggested the EU set up a border barrier in northern Greece saying just an agreement with Turkey cannot prevent thousands of people entering Europe. Since January 3, Sweden has put in place new measures to control people crossing its borders with Denmark. This is the first time in 50 years visa control is implemented in the Sweden-Denmark border. All passengers on board trains, ferries and buses from Denmark to Sweden via the Oresund bridge will have to go through visa checks. In addition, a temporary fence was set up at the Kastrup airport in Copenhagen, where all flights will have to stop for passenger checks. Finland has asked all ferries operating between Finland and Germany to check passenger visas.