(VOVworld) - Luxembourg's foreign minister Jean Asselborn said on Tuesday that the European Union's border agency could be deployed in non-member states like Serbia and Macedonia to deal with the migrant crisis.

Luxembourg's Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn give a news conference after an emergency meeting on the migrant crisis in Brussels, Belgium, November 9, 2015. (Photo: Reuters)

The European Commission wants to be able to deploy personnel from a new European Border and Coastguard Agency without, as currently required, the consent of the state concerned, EU officials have said. It is due to set out the plan on Tuesday to reinforce its Frontex agency with up to six times more staff. Jean Asselborn said the EU's open-border Schengen zone will only survive if the bloc's external borders are protected.

The European Commission proposed a 1,000-person European Border and Coast Guard to protect EU’s borders, support migrants, and do search and rescue for missing migrants. The force would intervene when a member state is unable to deal with the volume of migrants.